URSW 2015 - International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2015)

The 2015 Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web is intended to build on the success of the ten previous URSW workshops. While considerable progress has been achieved toward realization of the Semantic Web vision, it is increasingly apparent that the sound and principled technology for handling uncertainty is a key-enabling aspect for continued progress.
Uncertainty is an unavoidable factor in knowledge interchange and application interoperability. Different applications have different ontologies, different semantics, and different knowledge and data stores. Legacy applications are usually only partially documented and may rely on tacit usage conventions that even proficient users do not fully understand or appreciate. Further, data that is exchanged in the context of the Semantic Web may be incomplete, inconsistent, and inaccurate. This suggests that recent work in the application of probability and decision theory to complex, open-world problems could be of vital importance to the success of the Semantic Web. Incorporating these new technologies into languages, protocols, and specifications is fundamental to bringing the Semantic Web vision to its full fruition.