From jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk Thu Feb 1 11:25:57 2007 From: jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk (Jeff Z. Pan) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:25:57 +0000 Subject: [OWL] Reminder: RR2007 deadline approaching Message-ID: <45C21495.1060104@csd.abdn.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting! == ** CALL FOR PAPERS: RR2007 ** RR 2007 The First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 7-8 June 2007, Innsbruck (Austria) * NEW DEADLINE for paper submission: 6 Feb 2007 * Web site: http://www.wrrs.info ** INTRODUCTION ** The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results on all topics concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2007 brings together three previously separate events: the International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR), the International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML), and the International Workshop on Reasoning on the Web (RoW). This joint conference is devoted to all aspects of Semantic Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on rule-based approaches and languages. It welcomes both theoretical and practical submissions on this wide subject. The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modelling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL. The conference is supported by REWERSE and RuleML, and conveniently co-located with ESWC. ** SUBMISSIONS ** RR 2007 welcomes original research and application papers dealing with web reasoning and rule systems, with particular attention to the topics listed below. Submissions are expected by 6 Feb 2007 and should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer LNCS format (see http://www.wrrs.info). The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, and revised versions of the best papers will be submitted for publication in the prestigious International Journal Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). Papers may be accepted as: full papers (15 pages in the proceedings) short papers (8 pages in the proceedings) selected posters (1 page in the proceedings) ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Paper Submission: 6 February 2007 Notification: 9 March, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers due: 19 March, 2007 Conference: 7-8 June, 2007 ** CONFERENCE TOPICS ** Submissions on all topics related to web reasoning and rules systems are welcomed, including (but not limited to) the following: Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction Combining open and closed-world reasoning Combining rules and ontologies Design and analysis of reasoning languages Implemented tools and systems Standardization efforts Ontology and rules usability Ontology and rule languages and their relationships Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution) Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency Reasoning with constraints Rule languages and systems Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web Modularization of rules and ontologies Semantic Web Services modeling and applications Web and Semantic Web applications ** COMMITTEES ** Program Chairs: Massimo Marchiori, UNIPD (IT) Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (UK) Industrial Chair: Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG (FR) General Chair: Riccardo Rosati, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza (IT) Steering Committee (in progress): Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick (CA) Francois Bry, University of Munich (DE) Thomas Eiter, Technische Universitat Wien (AT) Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Michael Kifer, State University of New York (US) Massimo Marchiori, UNIPD (IT) Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (UK) Riccardo Rosati, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza (IT) Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG (FR) Michael Schroeder, TU Dresden (DE) Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Program Committee: see http://www.wrrs.info -- Dr. Jeff Z. Pan (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/) Department of Computing Science, The University of Aberdeen From jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk Thu Feb 1 13:59:06 2007 From: jpan at csd.abdn.ac.uk (Jeff Z. Pan) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:59:06 +0000 Subject: [OWL] Research assistant position (Semantic Grid & Folksonomies) - University of Aberdeen Message-ID: <45C2387A.9040601@csd.abdn.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting! == Part-time Postgraduate Research Assistant - PolicyGrid NCeSS Node Computing Science, University of Aberdeen ?22,540 - ?23,913 per annum pro rata Computing Science invites applications for the above post, to work on a project funded by the ESRC eSocial Science Programme. PolicyGrid (www.policygrid.org) is one of the ESRC National Centre for eSocial Science research nodes. The Node?s research agenda assists the social science community to exploit the full potential of emerging Semantic Web technologies and standards in the Grid context. The Node brings computer scientists and social scientiststogether to focus on the challenges of using Semantic Grid technologies to enable more powerful analysis of mixed-method data (e.g. surveys and interviews, case studies, simulations) thus adding significant value to the workof social scientists engaged in the creation and analysis of evidence bases for policy development and evaluation.The postgraduate research assistant will be part of a larger team, and will focus on the development of semantic grid infrastructure and lightweight metadata (ontology + folksonomy) support for management of social science datasets. You should have an excellent Honours degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and preferably an MSc. You are expected to be a competent programmer in Java, and have knowledge/experience of distributed information management (including ontologies). Prior knowledge in the area of social science is not essential, but would be anasset. The post will involve conceptual/theoretical work, and also implementation of software. Ideally you will have some knowledge and experience of Web/Grid services and e-science. The post is offered for 24 months on a part time (50% FTE) basis. If appointed, it is a condition that you will be required to undertake postgraduate research leading to a higher degree, in an area related to the research activities of the PolicyGrid Node. Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Peter Edwards (PolicyGrid Node Director) pedwards at csd.abdn.ac.uk Online application forms and further particulars are available from www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs. Alternatively email jobs at abdn.ac.uk or telephone (01224) 272727 (24-hour answering service) quoting reference number YCS058R for an application pack. The closing date for the receipt of applications is 8 February 2007 Promoting Diversity and Equal Opportunities throughout the University -- Dr. Jeff Z. Pan (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jpan/) Department of Computing Science, The University of Aberdeen From hoekstra at uva.nl Fri Feb 2 04:40:43 2007 From: hoekstra at uva.nl (Rinke Hoekstra) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:40:43 +0100 Subject: [OWL] ANN: LKIF-Core ontology: a core ontology of basic legal concepts Message-ID: <45C3071B.2040803@uva.nl> --- Apologies for multiple copies --- LKIF-Core Ontology A core ontology of basic legal concepts Developed within the ESTRELLA project (IST-2004-027655). Website: http://www.estrellaproject.org/lkif-core More information at http://www.estrellaproject.org Contacts: Rinke Hoekstra (hoekstra at uva.nl) and Joost Breuker (breuker at science.uva.nl) *Description* The LKIF core ontology consists of 15 modules, each of which describes a set of closely related concepts from both legal and commonsense domains. In that sense, the LKIF core ontology is rather a library of ontologies than a monolithic body of definitions. A glossary of the concepts and properties included in these modules can be found at http://www.estrellaproject.org/lkif-core/doc/all-Glossary.html. The online documentation provides a definition of each concept and property in the Manchester OWL syntax (See the co-ode website:http://www.co-ode.org/resources/reference/manchester_syntax/). The most abstract concepts are defined in five closely related modules: top, place, mereology, time and spacetime. *top* The LKIF top ontology is largely based on the top-level of LRI-Core but has less ontological commitment in the sense that it imposes less restrictions on subclasses of the top categories. *place* The place module partially implements the theory of relative places (Donnelly, 2005) in OWL DL. *mereology* The mereology module defines mereological concepts such as parts and wholes, and typical mereological relations such as part of, component of, containment, membership etc. *time* The time module provides an OWL DL implementation of the theory of time by Allen (1984). *spacetime* The space-time module is a placeholder for the place and time modules. Basic-level concepts are distributed across four modules: process, role, action and expression. *process* The process module extends the LKIF top ontology module with a definition of changes, processes (being causal changes) and physical objects. It introduces a limited set of properties for describing participant roles of processes. *role* The role module defines a typology of roles (epistemic roles, functions, person roles, organisation roles) and the plays-property for relating a role filler to a role. *action* The action module describes the vocabulary for representing actions in general. Actions are processes which are performed by some agent (the actor of the action). This module does not commit itself to a particular theory on thematic roles. *expression* The expression module describes a vocabulary for describing, propositions and propositional attitudes (belief, intention), qualifications, statements and media. It furthermore extends the role module with a number or epistemic roles, and is the basis for the definition of norms. These basic clusters are extended by three modules to cover legal concepts: legal action, legal role and norm. *legal-action* The legal action module extends the action module with a number of legal concepts related to action and agent, such as public acts, public bodies, legal person, natural person etc. *legal-role* The legal role module extends the role module with a small number of legal concepts related to roles, legal professions etc. *norm* The norm module is an extension primarily on the expression module where norms are defined as qualifications. Please refer to Deliverable 1.1 for a more in-depth description of the underlying theory. It furthermore defines a number of legal sources, e.g. legal documents, customary law etc., and a typology of rights and powers, cf. Sartor (2006), Rubino et al. (2006) In addition to these legal clusters, two modules are provided that cover the basic vocabulary of two frameworks: modification and rules. *modification* The modification module is both an extension of the time module and the legal action module. The time module is extended with numerous intervals and moments describing the efficacy and being in force of legal documents. The action module is extended with a typology of modifications. These concepts are described in further detail in Deliverable 3.2 of the ESTRELLA project. *rules* The rules & argumentation module defines roles central to argumentation, and describes the vocabulary for LKIF rules as defined in Deliverable 1.1, chapter 5. The module leaves room for further extension to complex argumentation frameworks (AIF, Carneades). Finally, these fourteen modules are integrated in the LKIF-Core ontology module. This module does not provide any additional definitions, but functions as an entry-point for users of the ontology library. *Documentation* Feel free to browse the online documentation for LKIF-Core: http://www.estrellaproject.org/lkif-core/doc/index.html The Deliverable 1.4, describing the ontology can be downloaded from: http://www.estrellaproject.org/lkif-core/doc/D1.4-OWL-Ontology-of-Basic-Legal-Concepts.pdf *License* The LKIF-Core ontology is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. For details about this license, please visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html. *Download* Please visit the LKIF Core download repository at http://draco.leibnizcenter.org/relay (login: public, pass:public), for the latest version of the LKIF Core ontology. -- ---------------------------------------------- Drs. Rinke Hoekstra Email: hoekstra at uva.nl Skype: rinkehoekstra Phone: +31-20-5253499 Fax: +31-20-5253495 Web: http://www.leibnizcenter.nl/users/rinke Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam, PO Box 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands ---------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hoekstra.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 317 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.mindswap.org/pipermail/owl/attachments/20070202/01c54192/attachment.vcf