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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Apologies for
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CALL FOR
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The Fourth International Workshop on
<BR>
ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2009)<BR>
http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/<BR>October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop
Program, Fairfax, near Washington DC., USA <BR><BR><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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>2. To conduct an extensive
and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching <BR>approaches through the OAEI
(Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) <BR>2009 campaign:
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/<BR>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.
<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR><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).<BR><BR><BR>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>http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html<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:
<BR><BR>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090 <BR><BR>Contributors
to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions <BR>and
schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/. <BR><BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES
FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: <BR>August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of
papers. <BR>September 6, 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,
Fairfax, near Washington DC., USA. <BR><BR><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1. Pavel
Shvaiko (Main contact)<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy<BR><BR>2.
Jérôme Euzenat <BR>INRIA & LIG, France<BR><BR>3. Fausto Giunchiglia
<BR>University of Trento, Italy<BR><BR>4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt <BR>University
of Mannheim, Germany <BR><BR>5. Natasha Noy <BR>Stanford Center for Biomedical
Informatics Research, USA <BR><BR>6. Arnon Rosenthal <BR>The MITRE Corporation,
USA <BR><BR><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
<BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Download the
OM-2009
flyer:<BR>http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf<BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>More
about ontology matching:
<BR>http://www.ontologymatching.org/<BR>http://book.ontologymatching.org/<BR><BR>Best
Regards,<BR>Pavel<BR><BR><BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, PhD<BR>Innovation and Research Project Manager<BR>TasLab, Informatica
Trentina SpA,
Italy<BR>http://www.ontologymatching.org/<BR>http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/<BR><A
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