3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD 2009): "Ontology Evolution in Practice"

General information

• The workshop will be co-located with the ISWC 2009 conference, held in Northern Virginia near Washington DC.
• Submission deadline: August 14, 2009
• Web site: http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/iwod/iwod2009

Topics

• Ontology evolution
• Ontology versioning
• Formal aspects of ontology dynamics
• Foundational issues
• Language extensions for evolution
• Belief revision for ontologies
• Inconsistency in evolving ontologies
• Change propagation in ontologies
• Ontologies for dynamic environments
• Dynamic knowledge building, and use
• Engineering evolvable ontologies
• Requirements for ontology evolution
• Case studies in ontology evolution
• Tools to support ontology evolution
• Application with dynamic ontologies
• Open problems

Second Workshop on Transforming and Weaving OWL Ontologies in MDE/MDA-TWOMDE2009

General Information

• At the ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2009)  http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/twomde2009/ 
• July   25, 2009:  Papers submission
• August 30, 2009:  Author notification
• September 15, 2009:  Submission of camera-ready papers

Aims and Scope

Nevertheless, as MDE spreads, disciplines like model transformation, domain specific languages (DSLs) and traceability become essential in order to support different kinds of models in an model driven environment. Understanding the role of ontology technologies like knowledge representation, automated reasoning, dynamic classification and consistence checking in these fields is crucial to leverage the development of such disciplines. Thus, we highlight the following open questions: How can the scientific and technical results around ontologies, ontology languages and their corresponding reasoning technologies be used fruitfully in MDE? What is the role of ontologies in supporting model transformation or traceability? How can ontologies improve designing DSLs? Are current query languages able to query both kinds of models?

Discussions about these and related questions will be supported by this workshop. TWOMDE2009 aims at providing a forum for discussing the application of different aspects of ontologies to enhance Model Driven Engineering.

The intended audience embraces members of the modeling community with experience or interest in Model Driven Engineering and in Knowledge Representation. Specifically, but not only, the participation of experts in technologies related with UML, MOF, ATL, QVT, RDF or OWL is highly welcome.

General Information

The 3rd European Semantic Technology Conference - ESTC2009 - will be organized in Vienna, Austria for the third time in row.

Semantic Technology Institute (STI) International is pleased to announce the 3^nd annual European Semantic Technology Conference. The programme will provide participants with a strategic overview of how semantic technology can be applied within their organisations without significant restructuring of their technological infrastructure and the tools, models, skills, and overall implementation plans to execute successful semantic technology initiatives. Participants will learn how to design, develop and apply a cohesive strategy for managing semantic technology initiatives and utilising these innovations to dramatically evolve the operations and effectiveness of their organisations from the foremost semantic technology experts, exploiters and experienced practitioners.

Important Dates

• Deadline for proposals: Friday, September 4, 2009
• Notification of approval: Friday, October 2, 2009
• Camera-ready or PowerPoint copy of proceedings to STI International: Friday, October 16, 2009
• Conference – 2nd December (9.00 CET) – 3rd December (18.00 CET).

Submission Overview

You are invited to submit a proposal for ESTC2008. The programme advisory committee will review proposals. Priority will be given to proposals that are innovative, practical, include specific and applicable learning objectives, and describe approaches that are feasible for all size organisations. In addition, those submissions that are creative in their use of experiential learning techniques will receive special consideration. You can submit proposals in the following categories:

• technical workshop (2h)
• technical workshop (4h)
• full paper presentation (40min)
• short paper presentation (20min)
• demo (presentation at demo lounge 2^nd evening)

Description

The aim of the conference is to bring together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners within organizations responsible for information technology and systems in one place to learn about how to integrate this unparalleled technology into their operations. ESTC is Europe's most prominent and authoritative conference focusing on the growth of the ICT semantic technology markets, highlighted by showcased industry practices, advancements in the field of semantic technologies achieved in the past year, and successful marketing strategies in delivering semantic applications that generate new revenues. Participants know how to develop a cohesive strategy for managing semantic technology initiatives and utilizing these to evolve the operations and effectiveness of their organizations.

The 2009 European Semantic Technology Conference is designed to allow participants to network with and learn from one another – you will be able to customise your programme to suit your personal interests and imperatives, as the programme will be divided into learning tracks focused on specific areas of practice. The programme consists of technical workshops, seed workshop, paper presentations, high level keynotes and demos and product presentations from vendors.

General Information

Title: Workshop on Collaborative Construction,Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge, Collocated with ISWC-2009
Venue: Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA
Website: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/

Important dates

• Paper submission: 10 August 2009
• Notification: 31 August 2009
• Workshop: 25 October 2009

Objectives

Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web 2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web? Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This integration involves several very different aspects of technology and social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic Web techniques:  collaborative and distributed methods for constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies, and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle.

Topics of interest

They include (but are not limited to):

• Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge
• Collaborative creation of ontology mappings
• Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured knowledge that was created collaboratively
• Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge construction and maintenance
• Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the Social Web.
• Metadata management
• User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured knowledge
• Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies
• Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured knowledge
• Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and experimental reports