OnAV10

OnAV10
OnAV10 - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization
Subevent of	International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems
Start	15 February 2010 (iCal)
End	18 February 2010
Homepage:	Homepage
Location
City:	Krakow
Country:	Poland
Important dates
Papers due:	14 October 2009
Submissions due:	14 October 2009
Notification:	1 November 2009
Camera ready due:	15 November 2009

Deadlines

• Submission Deadline for Regular Papers: 14 October 2009
• Submission Deadline for Position Statement Papers: 14 October 2009
• Author Notification: 1 November 2009
• Author Registration: 15 November 2009
• Proceedings Version: 15 November 2009
• Workshop Dates: 15 - 18 February 2010

Scope

Ontologies provide a shared common understanding about the entities of a given domain, enabling reuse of data and information. Ontologies are becoming pervasive; they can model the structure of a knowledge system, be used to annotate data, applied to software agents or describe web services. Furthermore, ontologies form the back-bone of the Semantic Web effort, which envisions the Internet as a globally linked database, one that supports data interoperability and machine readable semantics.

However, as the use of ontologies grows, inevitably, many challenges must be addressed. Ontologies must be peer reviewed and updated through consensus, data annotations have to be updated as ontologies change, bringing issues of collaboration and trust to the forefront of semantic web technologies. Moreover, specific issues for ontology development and alignment such as: user support, human factors, alignment accuracy, applicability of different approaches, scalability, ontology evolution/versioning, run-time requirements of semantic web services and applications, etc. are critical to the success of the Semantic Web.

Over the past decade, a number of cognitive support tools for assisting users with ontology development tasks such as navigation, exploration, annotation, and mapping have been developed. Human intervention is necessary for the development of ontologies, to help evaluate the quality of ontologies and make judgments about mapping correspondences. Promising techniques from information visualization, human computer interaction, and computer supported collaborative work can, and have been applied, to help support such tasks. Furthermore, initial studies have shown that visualization can help such management tasks as ontology evaluation and alignment.

Target Group

The OnAV Workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers discussing state of the art approaches to ontology management and alignment, and in particular, to investigate how information visualization techniques can be applied to support ontology navigation, ontology alignment decision making tasks, and ontology evaluation. However, we also encourage researchers and practitioners working in other areas such as ontologies for Semantic Web applications, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, to submit interesting and challenging contributions.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

Visualization, user interfaces, and interaction techniques for:

• Ontology Alignment, Mapping and Merging
• Ontology Navigation/Exploration
• Ontology Management Tasks
• Ontology Evolution
• Data annotation

Automated and Human-mediated Tasks of the Alignment Process
Visual Metaphors in Alignment
User-specific and Task-oriented Ontology Alignment
Quality in Ontology Alignment and Mapping
Alignment Meta-Data
Ontology Alignment, Mapping and Merging
Standardization of Alignment Data
Applications of Ontology Alignment
Similarity Measures for Ontology Alignment
Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods

Submission Guidelines & Publication

The papers should be prepared using the IEEE CS format, two columns layout, single-spaced, 10-point, and using page numbers. The length of regular papers should not exceed 6 pages (including figures and tables). For position papers the authors are encouraged to use 'Position Paper' in the title to distinguish them from regular papers. The position papers should be prepared using the IEEE CS format, two columns layout, single-spaced, 10-point, and using page numbers. The length should not exceed 4 pages (including figures and tables). For submission the paper should not contain the names of the authors or any references that may point to them as the authors of the paper. The papers should be submitted electronically via <a href="http://www.cisis-conference.eu/conf/">CISIS'10</a> website. If there is any problem with the electronic submission, please contact the Workshop Co-Chairs.

IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines (Latex and MS Word) are available here: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance to workshop topics, technical soundness, clarity, and presentation quality. Each submission will receive at least three blind reviews. Proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The best papers presented at the workshop will be selected for publication in an international journal. Position papers will be reviewed and published in the proceedings of the workshop by IEEE Computer Society Press as well.

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Jennifer Sampson, EPSIS, Norway
• Sean Falconer, University of Victoria, Canada

Program Committee

• Robert Baumgartner, (Lixto Software GmbH, Austria)
• Key-Sun Choi, (KAIST, Korea)
• Tricia d'Entremont, (Univ. of Victoria, Canada)
• Anna V. Fensel, (ftw., Austria)
• Jon Atle Gulla, (NTNU, Norway)
• Jason J. Jung, (Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea)
• Katharina Kaiser, (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
• Johan Wilhelm Klüwer, (DNV, Norway)
• Konstantinos Kotis, (Univ. of the Aegean, Greece)
• Silvia Miksch, (Danube Univ. Krems, Austria)
• Yannick Naudet, (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
• Oscar Pastor Lopez, (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
• Margit Pohl, (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
• Axel Polleres, (DERI, Ireland)
• Markus Rester, (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
• Marwan Sabbouh, (MITRE Corp., USA)
• Martina Seidl, (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
• Pavel Shvaiko, (Univ. of Trento, Italy)
• Darijus Strasunskas, NTNU, Norway
• Merwyn G. Taylor, (MITRE Corp., USA)
• Csaba Veres, (DSTO, Australia)
• Shuichiro Yamamoto, (NTT Data, Japan)

Contact

For any inquiries please contact the workshop co-chairs:
Monika Lanzenberger
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems
Favoritenstr. 9-11/E188
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
T: +43 (0) 1 58801 18871
F: +43 (0) 1 58801 18899
E: lanzenberger (at) ifs (dot) tuwien (dot) ac (dot) at

Jennifer Sampson
EPSIS
Kokstadflaten 31
5257 Bergen
Norway
T: +47 55 92 57 50
F: ++47 55 92 57 51
E: jsa (at) epsis (dot)no

Sean Falconer
University of Victoria
Computer Human Interaction & Software Engineering Lab
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
T: +1 (250) 472 5778
E: seanf (at) uvic (dot) ca