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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Apologies for
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2nd CALL FOR
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The Eighth International Workshop on
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ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2013)<BR> <A
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href="http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/">http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR>October
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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: <A
href="">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/</A>. <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><BR><BR>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><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 2013
campaign. Technical papers should <BR>be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS
Style:<BR><A
href="">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</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:
<BR><BR><A href="">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20130</A>
<BR><BR>Contributors to the OAEI 2013 campaign have to follow the campaign
conditions <BR>and schedule at <A
href="">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2013/</A>. <BR><BR><BR>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><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.
Kavitha Srinivas<BR>IBM, USA <BR><BR>4. Ming Mao <BR>eBay, USA <BR><BR>5.
Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz<BR>University of Oxford, UK <BR><BR><BR><BR>PROGRAM
COMMITTEE<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>Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at
Chicago, USA<BR>Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France<BR>AnHai Doan, University
of Wisconsin and Kosmix Corp., USA<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>Anastasios Kementsietsidis,
IBM, USA<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>Peter Mork, Noblis,
USA<BR>Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, 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>Andrea
Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy<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>Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA<BR>Songmao
Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2
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ontology matching: <BR><A href="">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR><A
href="">http://book.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR>Best
Regards,<BR>Pavel<BR><BR><BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, PhD<BR>Innovation Program Manager<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA,
Italy<BR><A href="">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR><A
href="">http://www.taslab.eu/</A><BR><A href="">http://www.infotn.it/</A> <BR><A
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