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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Apologies for
cross-postings<BR> <BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>
1st CALL FOR
CONTRIBUTIONS<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> </FONT></DIV>
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The Eighth International Workshop on
<BR>
ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2013)<BR>
</FONT><A href=""><FONT
title="http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/ Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
face=Verdana size=2>http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana size=2> October 21st or 22nd, 2013,
ISWC Workshop Program, Sydney, Australia <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>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>dealing with the
semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies <BR>as input and
determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of <BR>correspondences between
the semantically related entities of those ontologies. <BR>These correspondences
can be used for various tasks, such as ontology<BR>merging, data translation,
query answering or navigation on the web of data. <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>2013 campaign: </FONT><A href=""><FONT
title="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/ Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
face=Verdana size=2>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>. <BR>The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is
on real-world <BR>specific matching tasks as well as on evaluation of
interactive matchers.<BR>Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation
<BR>initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion <BR>of how well
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 <BR>to transition to
mainstream tools.<BR> <BR>This year, in sync with the main conference, we
encourage submissions <BR>specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of
the approaches proposed <BR>(not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application
of the matching technology <BR>in real-life scenarios and assessment of its
usefulness to the final users. <BR> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>TOPICS of interest include but are not limited
to: <BR> Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open
government data); <BR> Requirements to matching from specific
domains (e.g., energy); <BR> Application of matching
techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps);
<BR> Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
<BR> Matching patterns; <BR> Matching and
big data; <BR> Entity matching;<BR> Instance
matching and data interlinking; <BR> Large-scale matching
evaluation; <BR> Performance of matching techniques;
<BR> Matcher selection and self-configuration;
<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 emerging applications (e.g.,
linked data, search). <BR> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>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 2013 campaign. Technical papers should <BR>be not longer than 12 pages
using the LNCS Style:<BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>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></FONT><A
href=""><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20130</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana size=2> <BR> <BR>Contributors to the OAEI 2013 campaign
have to follow the campaign conditions <BR>and schedule at </FONT><A
href=""><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>. <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
<BR>July 12, 2013: Deadline for the submission of papers. <BR>August 9,
2013:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. <BR>October 21th or
22nd, 2013: OM-2013, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sydney,
Australia. <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>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. Kavitha Srinivas<BR>IBM, USA
<BR> <BR>4. Ming Mao <BR>eBay, USA <BR> <BR>5. Ernesto
Jiménez-Ruiz<BR>University of Oxford, UK </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)<BR>Manuel
Atencia, INRIA &LIG, France <BR>Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy <BR>Zohra
Bellahsene, LRIMM, France <BR>Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany
<BR>Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA <BR>Marco Combetto,
Informatica Trentina, Italy <BR>Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK
<BR>Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France <BR>Alfio Ferrara, University of
Milan, Italy <BR>Bin He, IBM, USA <BR>Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
<BR>Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan <BR>Antoine Isaac,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands <BR>Krzysztof
Janowicz, University of California, USA <BR>Anja Jentzsch, Wikimedia
Deutschland, Germany <BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK <BR>Patrick
Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden <BR>Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna
University of Technology, Austria <BR>Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento,
Italy <BR>Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK <BR>Christian Meilicke,
University of Mannheim, Germany <BR>Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK <BR>Leo
Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA <BR>Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim,
Germany <BR>Yefei Peng, Google, USA <BR>François Scharffe, LIRMM &
University of Montpellier, France <BR>Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- IRST, Italy <BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy <BR>Ondrej Svab-Zamazal,
Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic <BR>Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France
<BR>Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France <BR>Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno
Kessler - IRST, Italy <BR>Lorenzino Vaccari, Autonomous Province of Trento,
Italy <BR>Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany <BR>Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
<BR> <BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>More
about ontology matching: <BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>http://www.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><A href=""><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>http://book.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
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size=2>-------------------------------------------------------<BR> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Best
Regards,<BR>Pavel<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, PhD<BR>Innovation Program Manager<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA,
Italy<BR></FONT><A href=""><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>http://www.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><A href=""><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>http://www.taslab.eu/</FONT></A><BR><A href=""><FONT
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