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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 Ninth International Workshop on
<BR>
ONTOLOGY MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2014)<BR>
<A
title="http://om2014.ontologymatching.org/ Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
href="">http://om2014.ontologymatching.org/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>October 19th or 20th, 2014, ISWC Workshop Program,
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<DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>
Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler
for the Semantic Web, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>as well as a useful tactic in some classical data
integration tasks </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It
takes the ontologies </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>as input and determines as output an alignment,
that is, a set of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>correspondences between the semantically related
entities of those ontologies. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>These correspondences can be used for various
tasks, such as ontology </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>merging, data translation, query answering or
navigation on the web of data. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and
data expressed </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>in the matched ontologies to
interoperate. <BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <BR>The workshop has
three goals: <BR>1.
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To bring together leaders from academia, industry
and user institutions </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>to assess how academic advances are addressing
real-world requirements. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The workshop will strive to improve academic
awareness of industrial </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and final user needs, and therefore direct research
towards those needs. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform
industry and user </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>representatives about existing research efforts
that may meet their </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>requirements. The workshop will also investigate
how the ontology </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>matching technology is going to
evolve.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>2. <FONT size=2 face=Arial>To conduct an extensive
and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and instance matching (link
discovery) approaches through </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>the OAEI (Ontology
Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2014 campaign. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Besides real-world specific
matching tasks, involving, e.g., </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>large biomedical
ontologies, OAEI-14 will include evaluation</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>of interactive matchers and
matchers for query answering. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Therefore, the ontology
matching evaluation initiative itself will provide </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>a solid ground for
discussion of how well the current approaches </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>are meeting business
needs.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>3. <FONT size=2 face=Arial>To examine new uses,
similarities and differences from database </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>schema matching, which has
received decades of attention </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial>but is just beginning to
transition to mainstream tools.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Business and use cases for
matching (e.g., big and open 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 and big data;<BR>
Matching and linked data;<BR> Instance matching, data
interlinking and relations between them;<BR> Large-scale and
efficient matching techniques;<BR> Matcher selection,
combination and tuning;<BR> User involvement (including both
technical and organizational aspects);<BR> Explanations in
matching;<BR> Social and collaborative
matching;<BR> Uncertainty in matching;<BR>
Reasoning with alignments; <BR> Alignment coherence and
debugging;<BR> Alignment management;<BR>
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information
integration);<BR> Matching for emerging applications (e.g.,
search, web-services).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><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 2014 campaign. Technical papers should <BR>be not longer than 12 pages
using the LNCS Style:<BR><A
title="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
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
title="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2014 Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
href="">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2014</A> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>DATES
FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: <BR>July 11, 2014: Deadline for the submission
of papers. <BR>August 1, 2014: Deadline for the notification of
acceptance/rejection. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>August 15, 2014: Camera ready copy
submission.<BR>October 19th or 20th, 2014: OM-2014, Riva del Garda,
Trentino, Italy. <BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1. Pavel Shvaiko (main
contact)<BR>Informatica Trentina, Italy<BR> <BR>2. Jérôme Euzenat <BR>INRIA
& LIG, France<BR> <BR>3. Ming Mao <BR>Electronic Arts,
USA<BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR>4. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz <BR>University
of Oxford, UK<BR> <BR>5. Juanzi Li <BR>Tsinghua University,
China<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>6. Axel Ngonga <BR>University of Leipzig,
Germany<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed):</DIV>
<DIV>Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany<BR>Michele Barbera, Spazio
Dati, Italy<BR>Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France<BR>Chris Bizer, University of
Mannheim, Germany<BR>Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine,
USA<BR>Michelle Cheatham, Write State University, 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>Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy<BR>Avigdor
Gal, Technion, Israel<BR>Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy<BR>Wei
Hu, Nanjing University, China<BR>Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of
Informatics, Japan<BR>Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam &
Europeana, Netherlands<BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK<BR>Anastasios
Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA<BR>Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet,
Sweden<BR>Nico Lavarini, Expert System, Italy<BR>Vincenzo Maltese, University of
Trento, Italy<BR>Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK<BR>Andriy Nikolov,
Open University, UK<BR>Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim,
Germany<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>Catia Pesquita, University of
Lisbon, Portugal<BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy<BR>Ondrej Svab-Zamazal,
Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic<BR>Cássia Trojahn, IRIT,
France<BR>Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST,
Italy<BR>Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center,
Italy<BR>Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany<BR>Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, Netherlands<BR>Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>More about
ontology matching: <BR><A
title="http://www.ontologymatching.org/ Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
href="">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR><A
title="http://book.ontologymatching.org/ Ctrl + clic per seguire il collegamento"
href="">http://book.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR> <BR> <BR>Best
Regards,<BR>Pavel<BR> <BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, PhD<BR>Program Manager<BR>Informatica Trentina, 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
href="">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel</A></FONT></DIV>
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