OWLED 2008 DC

The fourth workshop in the OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) workshop series will again bring users, implementors and researchers together in order to measure the current state of need against the state of the art and to set an agenda for language evolutions that satisfy users. This OWLED workshop will last two days and will be held in the Washington, D.C., area, in the first week of April 2008. The workshop will concentrate on issues related to the development and W3C standardization of OWL 1.1, but other issues related to OWL are also of interest, particularly those related to the task forces set up at OWLED 2007.

As an "interim" workshop, the workshop will be more open and unconstrained than recent OWLED workshops. The workshop will have two very different kinds of activities. There will be some formal presentation of some submissions to the workshop. However, the bulk of the workshop will be devoted to self-organizing groups discussing topics related to submissions to the workshop and possibly other topics related to OWL.

Making this self-organization work will require effort on the part of the attendees. Workshop attendees should read submissions accepted at the workshop before the workshop starts so that they can contribute to the discussions at the workshop. Attendees should also prepare single "slides" that can be presented during these discussions.

[edit] Topics

Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, application, theory, method, and tools, are welcome at the workshop; including but not limited to the following topics:

• Applications of OWL, particularly from industry
• Ontologies built using OWL, particularly large scale efforts
• Application-driven requirements for OWL
• Experience reports on using OWL
• Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages
• Performance and scalability issues
• Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL
• Non-standard inference services, including explanations, static verification, modularity
• Enriching ontologies with rules
• Query answering and data integration
• Tools for OWL, including: editors, visualisation tools, parsers and syntax checkers, versioning frameworks
• Extensions to OWL, including:
  • extended datatype constructors, property constructors, class constructors
  • keys, constraints, rules
  • probabilistic and fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions, temporal and spatial extensions

Systems demonstrations are also welcome. Interested parties should submit a short description (maximum 4 pages) of their demonstration.

The workshop will have a special emphasis on the state of OWL 1.1 and topics related to the OWLED Task Forces. Papers related to either of these, including reports from the task forces, are particularly welcome. It is expected that workshop time will be reserved for a readout of the status of the W3C OWL WG.

[edit] Committees

[edit] Main Organizers

• Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia
• Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research

[edit] Steering Committee

The OWLED Steering Committe at the time of that workshop was:

• Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Manchester (UK)
• John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK)
• Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany)
• Ian Horrocks, Oxford University (UK)
• Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester (UK)
• Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA)

[edit] Program Committee

• Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Jeremy Carroll, HP
• Anne Cregan, National ICT Australia
• Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics
• Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles
• John Goodwin, Ordinance Survey
• Volker Haarslev, Concordia University
• Christian Halaschek-Wiener, Clados
• Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester
• Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM TJ Watson
• Markus Krötzsch, Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
• Joanne Luciano, MITRE
• Alan Ruttenberg, Creative Commons
• Michael Smith, Clark & Parsia
• Giorgos Stoilos, National and Technical University of Athens
• Suzzette Stoutenberg, MITRE
• Zhe Wu, Oracle Corporation