International Workshop on Ontology Matching

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as output correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from both academia and industry with its emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching. On the one side, we expect representatives from industry to present business cases and their requirements for ontology matching. On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches vis-a-vis those industrial requirements.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios;
• Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains;
• Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching;
• Performance of ontology-matching techniques;
• Background knowledge in ontology matching;
• Uncertainty in ontology matching;
• Interactive ontology matching;
• Ontology matching evaluation methodology;
• Ontology matching for information integration;
• Ontology matching for query answering;
• Ontology matching for dynamic environments;
• Systems and Infrastructures.

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2006 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. These should be prepared in PDF format and should be sent (no later than August 11, 2006) by email to Pavel Shvaiko: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it

Technical Papers:

• Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping *
  Marta Sabou, Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Motta
• Exploiting the Structure of Background Knowledge Used in Ontology Matching
  Zharko Aleksovski, Warner ten Kate, Frank van Harmelen
• Towards Understanding the Needs of Cognitive Support for Ontology Mapping
  Sean Falconer, Natalya Noy, Margaret-Anne Storey
• Applying an Analytic Method for Matching Approach Selection
  Malgorzata Mochol, Anja Jentzsch, Jérôme Euzenat
• Arguing Over Ontology Alignments
  Loredana Laera, Valentina Tamma, Jérôme Euzenat, Trevor Bench-Capon, Terry Payne
• Improving Automatically Created Mappings Using Logical Reasoning
  Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Andrei Tamilin


* Authors have been invited to submit an extended version of the paper for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics (JoDS). The extended version has been submitted, reviewed and accepted for publication in JoDS XI.

Invited Talks:

• Fausto Giunchiglia [CANCELLED]
  University of Trento, Italy
  Title: On background knowledge: The case study of ontology matching [Abstract]

  About the speaker:
         Currently: Professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento, Department of Information and Communication Technology.
         Scientific interests: My research has covered many different, but very related areas, among them: knowledge representation, context and reasoning with context, knowledge management and peer-to-peer knowledge management, agent oriented software engineering, formal methods, theorem proving, model checking. I have covered all the spectrum from theory (formal logics) to technology transfer. Lately, I have become interested in how research results go to the market and produce innovation.
         Academic and scientific track: around fifty journal papers; around two hundred publications overall; more than thirty invited talks in international events; program or conference chair of around ten international events, among them: IJCAI 2005, Mobiquitous 2004, Context 2003, AOSE 2002, Coopis 2001, KR&R 2000; program committee member of many conferences and workshops in, e.g., Artificial Intelligence, data bases, agents, information systems, automated reasoning, semantic web; editor or editorial board member of around ten journals, among them: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Journal of applied non Classical Logics, Journal of Software Tools for Technology Transfer, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
         Scientific and Academic management positions (selected list): Member of the ECCAI Fellows Selection Committee (04-06), IJCAI Board of Trustees member (01-11), President of IJCAI (05-07), President of KR, Inc. (02-04), Advisory Board member of KR, Inc., Steering Committee member of the CONTEXT conference.

• Amit Sheth
  University of Georgia and Semagix, USA
  Title: {Ontology: Resource} x {Matching : Mapping} x {Schema : Instance} ::
  Components of the same challenge [Abstract]

  About the speaker: Amit Sheth is a professor of Computer Science and the director of the LSDIS lab at the University of Georgia (UGA), and an IEEE Fellow. Before joining UGA, he served in R&D groups at Bellcore, Unisys, and Honeywell. His research has led to two successful startups, three significant commercial products, several commercial and open source tools, and several deployed applications. He has authored around 250 publications, has given 25 keynotes and over 160 invited talks/colloquia, and organized as co-chair 25 international conferences/workshops. He is the EIC of the Intl. Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, a co-editor of Springer Series on Semantic Web & Beyond: Computing for Human Experience, and is on the editorial board of five journals including Internet Computing. In January 2007, he will join the Wright State University as LexisNexis Eminent Scholar and start the Kno.e.sis center for research in Knowledge enabled Information & Service Sciences.

Organizing Committee:

• Richard Benjamins
  Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO), Spain
• Jérôme Euzenat
  INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
• Natasha Noy
  SMI, Stanford University, USA
• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
  DIT, University of Trento, Italy
  E-mail: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt
  KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Michael Uschold
  The Boeing Company, USA

Program Committee:

• Benjamin Ashpole, Bashpole, Inc., USA
• Richard Benjamins, Intelligent Software Components, Spain
• Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
• Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Andreas Hess, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Wei Hu, Southeast University, China
• Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA
• Todd Hughes, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, USA
• Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
• Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
• Meenakshi Nagarajan, University of Georgia, USA
• Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
• Satya Sahoo, University of Georgia, USA
• Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
• Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
• Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
• York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Michael Uschold, The Boeing Company, USA
• Petko Valtchev, University of Montreal, Canada
• Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy

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