2011 - Workshop Ontologies for Systems Integration and Standards

Workshop
Ontologies for Systems Integration and Standards
in conjunction with
THE 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING

Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
September 18-21, 2011

Ontologies have the potential to facilitate both the creation and exploitation of technical standards. There are tens of thousands of existing traditional standards which effectively define the characteristics of products, devices, systems and their permitted values, tolerances and relationships. Even without ontologies, there is a challenge to represent such standards in a form where the established agreements can be exploited in an electronic environment, either singly or integrated into a consistent body of knowledge. For example, there are hundreds of standards related to fasteners - bolts, screws, rivets and other types, with their dimensions, materials and other characteristics. These are being brought together through application of dictionary standards like ISO 13584 and 22745. There are standards which define simple lists of permitted values for properties, such as country codes and currency codes. Information models have been created for physical products, buildings, factories and geographical entities. These standards provide an existing body of knowledge that provides a rich source of material which could potentially be codified and exploited using ontological tools to capture all or selected parts of the content and the related implicit knowledge.1

This half-day workshop will build upon the findings documented in the 2009 Ontology Summit2 where the role of ontology for specifying standards will be extended to the use of ontology for systems and service integration in general, as well as the use of ontology for technical standards. New developments in ontology-based systems integration and use-cases will be presented and discussed.

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper) and Short Papers (4-page technical paper). More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page. Papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference and workshops will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.

IMPORTANT DATES
May 28th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission
June 28th, 2011: Notification Date
July 15th, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ram D. Sriram, NIST (Workshop Co-Chair)
Steven R. Ray, CMU (Workshop Co-Chair)