From baojie at cs.iastate.edu Fri Sep 8 23:11:03 2006 From: baojie at cs.iastate.edu (Jie Bao) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 11:11:03 +0800 Subject: [OWL] Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition @ IJCAI 2007 Message-ID: Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Hyderabad, India January 2007 http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/ijcai2007workshop.html Call for Papers SWeCKa 2007 Workshop Description Recent advances in computing and communications together with the rapid proliferation of information sources and services present unprecedented opportunities in integrative and collaborative analysis and interpretation of distributed, autonomous (and hence, inevitably semantically heterogeneous) data and knowledge sources and services in virtually every area of human activity. Fundamental advances in collaborative approaches to knowledge acquisition and data-driven decision making from distributed, autonomous, semantically heterogeneous data and knowledge sources require synergistic synthesis of research advances, insights, algorithms, and results in multiple areas of: * Artificial Intelligence - especially machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation and inference, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems; * Information Systems - especially databases, information integration, semantic web; and * Distributed computing and software engineering (e.g., service-oriented computing). The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the relevant areas of artificial intelligence, databases, knowledge bases, machine learning, information integration, ontologies, semantic web, web services, and relevant application areas (e.g., bioinformatics, environmental informatics, enterprise informatics e-science, e-government, medical informatics, security informatics, social informatics, among others). to discuss the current state of the art and open research problems in ontology modularization and integration. A secondary goal of the workshop is to facilitate collaborations between different research groups. Workshop Topics * Cyber-infrastructure and semantic web technologies for collaborative knowledge acquisition * Modeling semantically heterogeneous data and knowledge sources and services * Collaboratively developing and sharing ontologies and inter-ontology mappings * Representing and reasoning with ontologies and mappings between ontologies * Discovering mappings between data source schema and between ontologies * Reasoning with distributed modular ontologies * Integrating modular ontologies * Visualizing large distributed ontologies * Semantically annotating information sources * Querying distributed, semantically heterogeneous information sources * Acquiring knowledge from distributed data sources /span> * Acquiring knowledge from semantically heterogeneous data sources * Extracting knowledge and facts from distributed text and multimedia data * Exploiting distributed knowledge and data in dynamic data-driven applications * Finding, composing, and using semantically heterogeneous services * Modeling, tracking, and using information provenance * Modeling, and reasoning about trust of information sources and services * Preserving privacy, selectively sharing information and knowledge * Applications in bioinformatics, security informatics, enterprise informatics, social informatics, engineering informatics, health informatics, environmental informatics, and related areas * Case studies, software tools, use cases, and application * Open problems Workshop Format The workshop will consist of: * An opening session for introducing the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes * A small number of invited talks carefully intermixed with presentation of contributed papers. * Breaks between sessions, meant to encourage informal discussions related to the topics discussed in the sessions and to create opportunities for collaborations. * Discussion of open problems and future research directions * A wrap-up session summarizing the workshop (including formal or informal discussions). Paper Submissions We invite papers that report on completed or work in progress on relevant topic areas. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. The contributions should be submitted in the form of PDF documents using the templates provided for WORD and LaTeX. Submissions should be limited to a maximum of 6 pages for short papers, and 10 pages for long papers. PDF versions of the papers should be submitted through the SWeCKa 2007 paper submission web site at http://www.easychair.org/SWeCKa2007/ no later than September 30, 2006. Extended versions of selected papers may be published in a special issue of a journal or an edited book. Important Dates * Submissions Due: September 30, 2006 * Notification of Acceptance: October 23, 2006 * Camera-ready versions due: November 1, 2006 * Workshop: January 6, 7, or 8, 2007 Organizers Dr. Vasant Honavar (Workshop Chair) Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. Dr. Tim Finin, (Workshop Co-Chair) Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Dr. Doina Caragea Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA. Dr. Dunja Mladenic Department of Knowledge Technologies, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dr. York Sure Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany. From gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr Mon Sep 11 05:53:38 2006 From: gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr (Giorgos Stoilos) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:53:38 +0300 Subject: [OWL] CFP: Multimedia Analysis and Uncertainty Representation (Deadline Extention) Message-ID: <200609110953.k8B9rcSh021719@manolito.image.ece.ntua.gr> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Uncertainty Representation (MAUR) Half Day Workshop http://image.ntua.gr/events/maur/web/ First International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (6-8 December 2006) Wednesday December 6 2006 - Athens, Greece http://samt2006.org/index.html DESCRIPTION Multimedia processing like analysis and retrieval are inherently difficult tasks. In order to assist multimedia processing algorithms and applications, researchers are proposing ways to enrich multimedia algorithms with knowledge representational formalisms. In this way the multimedia processing techniques could take advantage of formal representation and automated reasoning methods. On the other hand multimedia processing algorithms are usually facing a huge amount of uncertain and imprecise knowledge. Hence knowledge representational formalisms must be equipped with mechanisms that are able to cope with such type of knowledge. The last couple of years a quite impressive number of uncertainty handling formalism have been developed, like fuzzy and probabilistic Description Logics, fuzzy, possibilistic and probabilistic Logic Programming languages etc. Such logical formalisms combine expressive power and decidable reasoning techniques. The use of such formalisms in multimedia applications would greatly benefit these applications and will provide new research results. TOPICS Multimedia Content Representation and Reasoning. Image and Video Analysis with Uncertainty Reasoning. Segmentation. Recognition. Multimedia Information retrieval. Scene Interpretation. Automatic Annotation. Classification and indexing of multimedia information objects. IMPORTANT DATES ****Full Paper Submission: September 15, 2006**** Acceptance Notification: October 1, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers due: November 2, 2006 Conference: December 6, 2006 SUBMISSION Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at leasttwo members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the SAMT 2006 Conference, and committed to attend the MAUR Workshop. MAUR 2006 welcomes the submission of two kind of papers: short position paper (2 pages maximum in Springer LNCS format), giving a brief description of an on-going implementation, algorithm or system. full papers (8 pages maximum in Springer LNCS format), good original research and application papers of the topics of the workshop. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr prior to the paper submission deadline. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Information for LNCS Authors. All papers selected by the program committee will be published by provided by the SAMT. All papers accepted will be presented during the workshop. This would include 20 minutes presentation (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion) for full papers, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 5-minute slot to share their ideas. ORGANIZERS Giorgos Stoilos (National and Technical University of Athens) Jeff Z. Pan (Department of Computing Science, The University of Aberdeen) Umberto Straccia (ISTI - Italian National Research Council at Pisa) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessio Cartocci (International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG), US) Barbara Barry (MIT Media Lab, US) Carlos Viegas Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Christian Halaschek (University of Maryland, USA) Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Florence Sedes (IRIT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France) Giorgos Stamou (National and Technical University of Athens, Greece) Massimo Martinelli (National Research Council - Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy) Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio, US) Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Sofia Tsekeridou (Democritus University of Thrace School of Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept, Greece) Thomas Franz (Universitat Koblenz - Landau, Germany) Ying Li (IBM T.J. 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URL: http://lists.mindswap.org/pipermail/owl/attachments/20060911/df69b8b0/attachment-0001.html From gstoil at image.ntua.gr Mon Sep 11 05:44:31 2006 From: gstoil at image.ntua.gr (Giorgos Stoilos) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:44:31 +0300 Subject: [OWL] CFP: Multimedia Analysis and Uncertainty Representation (Deadline Extention) Message-ID: <200609110944.k8B9iRnK021512@manolito.image.ece.ntua.gr> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Uncertainty Representation (MAUR) Half Day Workshop http://image.ntua.gr/events/maur/web/ First International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (6-8 December 2006) Wednesday December 6 2006 - Athens, Greece http://samt2006.org/index.html DESCRIPTION Multimedia processing like analysis and retrieval are inherently difficult tasks. In order to assist multimedia processing algorithms and applications, researchers are proposing ways to enrich multimedia algorithms with knowledge representational formalisms. In this way the multimedia processing techniques could take advantage of formal representation and automated reasoning methods. On the other hand multimedia processing algorithms are usually facing a huge amount of uncertain and imprecise knowledge. Hence knowledge representational formalisms must be equipped with mechanisms that are able to cope with such type of knowledge. The last couple of years a quite impressive number of uncertainty handling formalism have been developed, like fuzzy and probabilistic Description Logics, fuzzy, possibilistic and probabilistic Logic Programming languages etc. Such logical formalisms combine expressive power and decidable reasoning techniques. The use of such formalisms in multimedia applications would greatly benefit these applications and will provide new research results. TOPICS Multimedia Content Representation and Reasoning. Image and Video Analysis with Uncertainty Reasoning. Segmentation. Recognition. Multimedia Information retrieval. Scene Interpretation. Automatic Annotation. Classification and indexing of multimedia information objects. IMPORTANT DATES ****Full Paper Submission: September 15, 2006**** Acceptance Notification: October 1, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers due: November 2, 2006 Conference: December 6, 2006 SUBMISSION Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at leasttwo members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the SAMT 2006 Conference, and committed to attend the MAUR Workshop. MAUR 2006 welcomes the submission of two kind of papers: short position paper (2 pages maximum in Springer LNCS format), giving a brief description of an on-going implementation, algorithm or system. full papers (8 pages maximum in Springer LNCS format), good original research and application papers of the topics of the workshop. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to gstoil at image.ece.ntua.gr prior to the paper submission deadline. Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For complete details, see Information for LNCS Authors. All papers selected by the program committee will be published by provided by the SAMT. All papers accepted will be presented during the workshop. This would include 20 minutes presentation (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion) for full papers, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 5-minute slot to share their ideas. ORGANIZERS Giorgos Stoilos (National and Technical University of Athens) Jeff Z. Pan (Department of Computing Science, The University of Aberdeen) Umberto Straccia (ISTI - Italian National Research Council at Pisa) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessio Cartocci (International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG), US) Barbara Barry (MIT Media Lab, US) Carlos Viegas Damasio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Christian Halaschek (University of Maryland, USA) Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Florence Sedes (IRIT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France) Giorgos Stamou (National and Technical University of Athens, Greece) Massimo Martinelli (National Research Council - Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy) Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio, US) Ralf Moeller (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Sofia Tsekeridou (Democritus University of Thrace School of Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept, Greece) Thomas Franz (Universitat Koblenz - Landau, Germany) Ying Li (IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mindswap.org/pipermail/owl/attachments/20060911/010dd3dc/attachment-0001.html From jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk Tue Sep 12 07:11:13 2006 From: jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk (Jeff Z. Pan) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:11:13 +0100 (BST) Subject: [OWL] PhD position - Light-weight rule extended ontology languages Message-ID: <3497.193.92.77.173.1158059473.squirrel@www.csd.abdn.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies of this message] Department of Computing Science University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, UK http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ EPSRC Case PhD Studentship in Light-weight Rule Extended Ontology Languages ***Deadline for applications: 1 Oct, 2006*** Applications are sought for a funded EPSRC CASE studentship supported by HP on light-weight rule-extended ontology languages. The project aims to efficiently support a useful subset of the W3C standard Web Ontology Language OWL and the coming W3C rule standard RIF (Rule Interchange Format). Ontologies play an important role in the Semantic Web. Nowadays, the OWL Web Ontology Language, which is based on Description Logics, has been standardised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It has also been argued that rules are very useful in the Web; accordingly, W3C has set up the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group to produce a core rule language plus extensions which facilitate rules interchangability in the Web. Both the University of Aberdeen and HP are already active in this area, and will cultivate existing contacts with the W3C and other standardisation bodies, with a view to agreeing new Web standards. It is anticipated that a light-weight rule-extended ontology language is needed to provide efficient reasoning support for a useful subset of OWL and RIF, which is a completely unexplored topic as RIF is still under design and will only become a standard in late 2006 or 2007. Applicants should have a good Undergraduate (at the 2-1 level or higher) or Masters Degree in either Computing Science or a related discipline. They should be strongly motivated to conduct original research and with solid programming skills as well as the personal skills required to work closely with our industrial collaborator. This studentship will provide maintenance and fees for UK students or EU students with three year's UK residence (EPSRC rules determine eligibility): Maintenance ?12,300 for session 2006/7. Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Jeff Z. Pan by email jpan [AT] csd.abdn.ac.uk. A formal application including a CV will be required. Closing Date: 1 October 2006 Promoting Diversity and Equal Opportunities throughout From hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Tue Sep 19 10:56:34 2006 From: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:56:34 +0200 Subject: [OWL] Call for Participation: OWLED06. OWL - Experiences and Directions Message-ID: <45100522.3090105@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS Second International Workshop Athens, GA, USA, 10-11 November 2006 Co-located with ISWC06 and RuleML06. http://owl-workshop.man.ac.uk/OWLWorkshop06.html Registration is now open! Authors of accepted papers plus programme committee members are invited to participate in the workshop. The registration is also open for other interested people. Prospective participants that have not received an invitation should send an email to owl-ws-organizers at mindswap.org with a one-paragraph statement on their rationale to attend prior to registration. Oneline registration can be done at http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/2006/Nov/10/rule.phtml Call for Participation ---------------------- The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has been a W3C recommendation since 2004. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfill current and future application demands. The aim of the OWLED workshop series is to establish a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience, and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications. Characteristics of OWLED06 -------------------------- The 2006 OWLED workshop shall in particular - further the interaction between theoreticians, tool builders, and implementors; - help consolidating OWL 1.1; - initiate the development of OWL 2.0; and - aid in clarifying the relationships between OWL and rules. For OWLED06, we focus particularly on the following topics: - Experiences with OWL 1.1 - Implementation issues with OWL 1.1 - Demos of OWL 1.1 implementations - Requirements for a potential OWL 2.0 revision - Modeling and reasoning with OWL and rules - Survey papers - System descriptions Workshop Format --------------- The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion. Further presentations and system demonstrations will be made as part of a poster session. The workshop may also have one session in common with the Second International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML06) in which the integration of OWL with rules languages will be discussed. List of Accepted Papers for OWLED-2006 -------------------------------------- - Long Papers Carsten Lutz. Reasoning Support for Ontology Design Sean Bechhofer, Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther, Olaf Noppens, Peter Patel-Schneider, Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn, Anni-Yasmin Turhan and Timo Weith?ner. DIG 2.0 -- Towards a Flexible Interface for Description Logic Reasoners Guohua Shen, Zhiqiu Huang, Xiaodong Zhu and Xiaofei Zhao. Research on the Rules of Mapping from Relational Model to OWL Ammar Mechouche, Christine Golbreich and Bernard Gibaud. Towards an hybrid system for brain MRI images description Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummond, John Goodwin, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens and Hai Wang. The Manchester OWL Syntax Raul Garcia-Castro, Asuncion Gomez-Perez and Stefano David. Defining a Benchmark Suite for Evaluating the Import of OWL Lite Ontologies Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Bijan Parsia, Peter Patel-Schneider and Ulrike Sattler. Next Steps for OWL Nick Drummond, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens and Georgina Moulton. Putting OWL in Order: Patterns for Sequences in OWL Boris Motik and Ian Horrocks. Problems with OWL Syntax Deborah McGuinness and Peter Fox. Semantically-Enabled Virtual Observatories Matthew Horridge and Dmitry Tsarkov. Supporting Early Adoption of OWL 1.1 with Protege-OWL and FaCT++ Markus Kr?tzsch, Sebastian Rudolph and Pascal Hitzler. On the Complexity of Horn Description Logics Christian Halaschek-Wiener and Yarden Katz. Belief Base Revision For Expressive Description Logics Vladimir Kolovski, Bijan Parsia and Yarden Katz. Implementing OWL Defaults Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe DeGiacomo, Domenico Lembo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Antonella Poggi and Riccardo Rosati. Linking Data to Ontologies: The Description Logic DL-Lita_A Corinna Elsenbroich, Oliver Kutz and Ulrike Sattler. A Case for Abductive Reasoning over Ontologies Yolanda Gil, Jihie Kim, Varun Ratnakar and Ewa Deelman. Wings for Pegasus: A Semantic Approach to CreatingVery Large Scientific Workflows Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Carlos Buil, Jose Manuel Gomez, Olaf Goerlitz and Holger Lewen. Developing ontologies in OWL: An observational study Vinay Chaudhri, Bill Jarrold and John Pacheco. Exporting Knowledge Bases into OWL - Position Papers Catherine Dolbear, Glen Hart and John Goodwin. What OWL has done for geography and why we don?t need it to map read Robert Stevens, Phillip Lord and Andrew Gibson. Something nasty in the woodshed: the public knowledge model Aaron Kershenbaum, Achille Fokoue, Chintan Patel, Christopher Welty, Edith Schonberg, James Cimino, Li Ma, Kavitha Srinivas, Robert Schloss and J William Murdock. A View of OWL from the Field: Use-cases and Experiences Adrian Paschke. OWL2Prova: An Integration Approach Combining Rules and Semantic Web Ontologies Jie Bao and Vasant Honavar. Adapt OWL as a Modular Ontology Language Qing Lu and Volker Haarslev. OntoKBEval: DL-based Evaluation of OWL Ontologies Rinke Hoekstra, Jochem Liem, Bert Bredeweg and Joost Breuker. Requirements for Representing Situations Amineh Fadhil and Volker Haarslev. GLOO: A Graphical Query Language for OWL Ontologies Anita C. Liang, Boris Lauser and Margherita sini. From AGROVOC to the Agricultural Ontology Service / Concept Server - An OWL model for creating ontologies in the agricultural domain Venue ----- The Workshop will take place at the Classic Center (http://classiccenter.com/) in Athens, Georgia, U. S. A. (about two miles away from the location of ISWC 2006). For more venue information, including how to reach Athens, see the General Information section of the ISWC 2006 web site (http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/). There will be shuttle services between ISWC and OWLED locations. Steering Committee ------------------ Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA) Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA) Workshop Organising Committee ----------------------------- Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Manchester (UK) Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Conor Shankey, Visual Knowledge Software Inc. (USA) Evan Wallace, NIST (USA) Programme Committee ------------------- Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA) Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA) Kendall Clark, University of Maryland (USA) Giuseppe DeGiacomo, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy) Nick Gibbins, University of Southampton (UK) Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA) Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France) Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada) Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School (USA) Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany) Ashok Malhotra, Oracle (USA) Massimo Marchiori, W3C at MIT (USA) Boris Motik, University of Manchester (UK) Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America (USA) Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA) Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA) Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA) Terry Payne, University of Southampton (UK) Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, (USA) Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy) Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK) Andrew Schain, NASA (USA) Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands) Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (UK) Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano (Italy) -- Dr. habil. Pascal Hitzler Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe email: hitzler at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de fax: +49 721 608 6580 web: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de phone: +49 721 608 4751 http://www.neural-symbolic.org