===================================================== ===================================================== Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web =====================================================
December 2005 Covilhã – Portugal
http://baosw.epia05.di.ubi.pt
held in conjunction with 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence sponsored by APPIA, the Portuguese Association of AI http://epia05.di.ubi.pt
Ontologies promise a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be
communicated between people and application systems. Therefore, they have
emerged as an important research area since the 1990’s. Ontologies are used for
different purposes (natural language processing, e-commerce, e-learning,
knowledge management, semantic web, information retrieval, etc) by different
research communities (knowledge engineering, database, software engineering,
etc).
The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked another stage in the evolution of
the ontology field. According to Berners-Lee, the Semantic Web is an extension
of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better
enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. This cooperation can be
achieved by using shared knowledge-components. Therefore ontologies have become
a key instrument in developing the Semantic Web. They interweave human
understanding of symbols with their machine processability.
This workshop addresses the problems of building and applying ontologies in the
Semantic Web and other areas listed below, as well as the theoretical and
practical challenges arising from these applications. We invite contributions
to enhance the state-of-the-art of creating, managing and using ontologies.
Topics of Interest: ===================================================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Ontology Engineering: • methodologies • capture and learning • evaluation • management • evolution • ontology learning
Semantic Interoperability • composition and modularity • combining, merging, mapping and alignment • translating and transforming • ontology language interoperability
Ontologies for Information Sharing • ontology-based Information integration • mediators and brokers • agents and ontologies
Ontology Applications • semantic web • knowledge management • e-commerce, e-government, e-learning and e-science • information retrieval • p2p networks • web services • annotation
Invited Speaker:
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Christoph Bussler
Science Foundation Ireland Professor and Executive Director
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland,
Ireland http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler/
Workshop format and attendance:
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All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and selected for presentation on the
basis of these reviews. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop.
The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the
following components: one invited speaker, technical presentations of accepted
papers, and general discussion (some time will be allocated to discuss among
the workshop participants about emerging topics).
Attendance will be limited to workshop paper authors and a very limited set of
members of the community. Workshop attendees are required to register for the
main EPIA 2005 conference. For more information, please look up the conference
website at http://epia05.di.ubi.pt
Submission procedure:
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We encourage the submission of high-quality original work. Papers must be
formatted according to the Springer LNCS Series guidelines
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/), must not exceed 12 pages and must be
written in English. It will be blind reviewed. In order to make blind reviewing
possible, authors should omit their names and affiliations from the paper. Also,
while the references should include all published literature relevant to the
paper, including previous works of the authors, it should not include
unpublished works. Avoid including any information in the body of the paper or
references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such
information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication.
Workshop full papers of higher quality will be selected for publication in the
main volume of the conference proceedings (Lectures Notes in Artificial
Intelligence - LNAI). The remaining accepted papers will be published in local
workshop proceedings, in hard-copy and in the web. At least one of the authors
of accepted papers has to register for the EPIA 2005, otherwise the paper will
not be included in the proceedings.
The submission process will be available on the conference site. The only format
allowed for electronic submission is PDF. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed
by at least three program committee members and/or additional
reviewers/referees.
Important dates: ===================================================== 27-May-05 - Paper submission 15-Jul-05 - Notification of paper acceptance 28-Jul-05 - Camera-ready paper submission 05-Dec-05 - Conference begins
Program Committee: ===================================================== Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy Andreas Hotho, Kassel University, Germany Boris Motik, FZI, Germany Christopher Brewster, Sheffield University, UK Christopher Welty, Knowledge Structures Group, IBM, USA Eugénio Oliveira, Porto University, Portugal Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije University, Netherlands John Domingue, Open University, England Jorge Santos, Porto Superior Engineering Institute, Portugal Jose Iria, Sheffield University, UK Leo Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI, Germany Luis Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, England Mariano Fernandez-Lopez, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain Marta Sabou, Vrije University, Netherlands Michael Gruninger, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Oscar Corcho, Isoco, Spain Peter Mika, Vrije University, Netherlands Philipp Cimiano, AIFB, Karlsruhe University, Germany Rose Dieng, INRIA, France Siegfried Handschuh, Ontoprise, Germany Stefano Borgo, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italy Steffen Staab, Koblenz University, Germany Ubbo Visser, Bremen University, Germany Virginia Brilhante, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, Netherlands Ying Ding, DERI, Insbruck University, Austria York Sure, AIFB, Karlsruhe University, Germany
Organizing Committee:
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H.Sofia Pinto, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andreia Malucelli, Porto University/PUCPR, Portugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fred Freitas, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Christoph Tempich, Karlsruhe University, Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Workshop Venue:
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EPIA 2005 will be held in the city of Covilhã, the city of snow and wool, in the
Serra da Estrela National Park, which lies in the east of Portugal and hosted by
the Department of Computer Science of the University of Beira Interior. Details
on registration and accommodation will be available on the conference site.
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