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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Apologies for
cross-postings<BR> <BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>
2nd CALL FOR
CONTRIBUTIONS<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> <BR> <BR>
The Eighth International Workshop on
<BR>
ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2013)<BR>
<A
title="http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/ Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
href="http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/">http://om2013.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR>
October 21st or 22nd, 2013, ISWC Workshop Program, Sydney,
Australia <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<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/">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">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">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/">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
face=Arial>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>More about
ontology matching: <BR><A
href="http://www.ontologymatching.org/">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR><A
title="http://book.ontologymatching.org/ Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
href="http://book.ontologymatching.org/">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
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href="http://www.taslab.eu/">http://www.taslab.eu/</A><BR><A
href="http://www.infotn.it/">http://www.infotn.it/</A> <BR><A
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