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<DIV>Apologies for cross-postings</DIV>
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CALL FOR
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<DIV><BR>
The Fourth International Workshop on
<BR>
ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2009)<BR>
<A
href="">http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR> <BR>
October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Washington DC., USA </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES<BR>Ontology matching is a key
interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, <BR>as well as a useful tactic in
some classical data integration tasks. <BR>It takes the ontologies as input and
determines as output an alignment, <BR>that is, a set of correspondences between
the semantically <BR>related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences
can be used <BR>for various tasks, such as ontology merging and data
translation. <BR>Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data
expressed <BR>in the matched ontologies to interoperate. </DIV>
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<DIV>The workshop has three goals: <BR>1. To bring together leaders from
academia, industry and user institutions <BR>to assess how academic advances are
addressing real-world requirements. <BR>The workshop will strive to improve
academic awareness of industrial <BR>and final user needs, and therefore, direct
research towards those needs. <BR>Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to
inform industry and user <BR>representatives about existing research efforts
that may meet their<BR>requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the
ontology <BR>matching technology is going to evolve.</DIV>
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<DIV>2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching
<BR>approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative)
<BR>2009 campaign. This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about
<BR>oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for <BR>the
linked data community). Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation
<BR>initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well
<BR>the current approaches are meeting business needs. </DIV>
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<DIV>3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching,
<BR>which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition
<BR>to mainstream tools. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
<BR> Business cases for matching; <BR>
Requirements to matching from specific domains; <BR>
Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios;
<BR> Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching;
<BR> Large-scale ontology matching evaluation;
<BR> Performance of matching techniques;
<BR> Matcher selection and self-configuration;
<BR> Uncertainty in ontology matching; <BR>
User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
<BR> Explanations in matching; <BR> Social
and collaborative matching; <BR> Alignment management;
<BR> Reasoning with alignments; <BR>
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration);
<BR> Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer,
web-services).</DIV>
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<DIV>SUBMISSIONS<BR>Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of
technical papers and <BR>posters/statements of interest addressing different
issues of ontology matching <BR>as well as participating in the OAEI 2009
campaign. Technical papers should <BR>be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS
Style:<BR><A
href="">http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html</A><BR>Posters/statements
of interest should not exceed 2 pages and <BR>should be handled according to the
guidelines for technical papers. <BR>All contributions should be prepared in PDF
format and should be submitted <BR>through the workshop submission site at:
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<DIV><A href="">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign
conditions <BR>and schedule at <A
href="">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/</A>. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>***TENTATIVE*** IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: <BR>August 11,
2009: Deadline for the submission of papers. <BR>September 15, 2009: Deadline
for the notification of acceptance/rejection. <BR>October 2, 2009: Workshop
camera ready copy submission. <BR>October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields
Conference Center, Washington DC., USA. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)<BR>TasLab,
Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy</DIV>
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<DIV>2. Jérôme Euzenat <BR>INRIA & LIG, France</DIV>
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<DIV>3. Fausto Giunchiglia <BR>University of Trento, Italy</DIV>
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<DIV>4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt <BR>University of Mannheim, Germany </DIV>
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<DIV>5. Natasha Noy <BR>Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA
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<DIV>6. Arnon Rosenthal <BR>The MITRE Corporation, USA </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>Yuan An, Drexel University, USA <BR>Zohra
Bellahsene, LIRMM, France <BR>Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK
<BR>Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA <BR>Isabel Cruz,
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA <BR>Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel
<BR>Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA <BR>Jingshan Huang, University of South
Alabama, USA <BR>Wei Hu, Southeast University, China <BR>Ryutaro Ichise,
National Institute of Informatics, Japan <BR>Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany
<BR>Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy <BR>Bin He, IBM, USA
<BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK <BR>Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna
University of Technology, Austria <BR>Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet,
Sweden <BR>Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy <BR>Enzo
Maltese, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh,
UK <BR>Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany <BR>Luca Mion,
TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy <BR>Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation,
USA <BR>Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA <BR>Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs,
Germany <BR>François Scharffe, INRIA, France <BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R.,
Italy <BR>York Sure, University of Koblenz, Germany <BR>Andrei Tamilin,
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy <BR>Lorenzino Vaccari, PAT, Italy
<BR>Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany <BR>Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
<BR>Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA <BR>Rui Zhang, University of Trento, Italy
<BR>Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China </DIV>
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<DIV>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Download the
OM-2009 flyer:<BR><A
href="">http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf</A><BR>-------------------------------------------------------</DIV>
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<DIV>More about ontology matching: <BR><A
href="">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR><A
href="">http://book.ontologymatching.org/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,<BR>Pavel</DIV>
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<DIV>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel Shvaiko,
PhD<BR>Innovation and Research Project Manager<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina
SpA, Italy<BR><A href="">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR><A
href="">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</A><BR><A
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