OnToContent 2012 - 8th International Workshop on Ontology Content

Semantics play an increasingly crucial role in large and complex networked information systems. Ontologies, vocabularies, and semantic data all represent information sources valuable to end users and are fundamental resources that support a variety of applications in several domains, e.g., data integration, document management, information retrieval, web engineering, and so on.
This workshop focuses on issues related to the creation, publication, and evaluation of content for ontologies, vocabularies, and semantic data.
In particular, developing and evaluating the content of ontologies is notoriously a time consuming task when performed manually, but the increasing demand for domain specific ontologies is creating a corresponding demand for rapid assimilation of new content into ontologies without jeopardizing the quality of the ontologies themselves. There is, then, a need for the automation and semi-automation of tasks that develop ontology content, and there is also a need for automation and semi-automation of tasks that evaluate ontologies. The main topics investigated in this workshop are related to the development, evaluation (both black box an glass box), management, and documentation of ontologies using automated and semi-automated methods. Furthermore, two special tracks dedicated to specific domain of interest are open; the first track focuses on content creation and evaluation in the e-Governance domain while the second track focuses on Life Sciences.
We invite papers and project descriptions that discuss tools and the methodologies for accomplishing any of these tasks, particularly:
? Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied in real-world application domains.
? Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice, or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention.
? Business experience and case studies specifying requirements, challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in industry.
We also strongly encourage critical papers deriving lessons from failures in dealing with ontologies, not only stereotypical success reports!
Topics
Methodology and Engineering
Modeling and Engineering Methodologies
Ontology Design Patterns
Quality of Ontologies
Quality of Linked Open Data
Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Ontologies
Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Linked Open Data
Ontological Usability and Usefulness
Ontology Metadata and Libraries
Ontology Reusability
Ontology Evolution and Versioning
Methodologies for Consensus Reaching
Good, Best, and Bad Practices
Experiences/Empirical results of Ontology Management
Experiences of Light-weight vs. Heavy-weight Ontologies
Automatic and Semi-automatic Content Generation
Knowledge Harvesting
Inductive Methods for Ontologies
Quality of Ontology Mappings
Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Ontology Mappings
Multi-lingual Ontology Mappings
Crowdsourcing Content Generation
Participatory and Evolutionary Approaches to Ontology Engineering
Conflict Resolution and Self-adaptation in ad hoc Networks
Experiences of Light-weight vs. Heavy-weight Ontologies
Semantic Distance and Similarity
Semantics in Sensor Networks
Metrics and Tasks for Evaluation of Automatically and Semi-automatically Generated Content
e-Governance Ontology
Legal/Legislation Ontologies
Local Government Ontologies
Location Ontology (Real-Estate)
Person/Identity Ontology
Ontologies for Organizations
Ontologies for Social Networks
Ontologies for Digital Libraries
Ontologies for Public Utilities
Ontologies for Modeling Business Process
Ontologies for Supply Chains Management
Ontologies for Risk Analysis
Mappings Between e-Governance Ontologies
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Life Sciences
Biomedical Ontologies
Ontologies for Biology
Ontologies for Natural Sciences
Ontologies for Pharmacology
Ontologies for Food Science
Linked Open Data in Life Sciences
Mappings between Life Science Ontologies
Submissions
We invite (A) Research papers describing original studies of no more than 10 pages; (B) Position papers presenting opinions or work in progress of no more than 6 pages; and (C) Business experience and case studies of no more than 8 pages. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Detailed formatting instructions can be found at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS. OTM conference/workshop proceedings are indexed by several bibliographic resources including DBLP. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. The paper submission page will be announced soon.
Important dates
Abstract Submission deadline: May 18, 2012
Paper Submission deadline: May 25, 2012
Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2012
Camera-Ready due: July 16, 2012
Author Registration due: July 16, 2012
SINCOM’12 Workshop: September 13 - 14, 2012
Program Chairs
Amanda Hicks, University of Buffalo, USA - aellenhicks(at)gmail.com
Matteo Palmonari, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy - palmonari(at)disco.unimib.it
General Chairs
Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine
Program Committee
Alan Ruttenberg, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Albert Goldfain, University at Buffalo, USA
Aldo Gangemi, LAO - CNR, IT
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Andreas Schmidt, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE
Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck, AT
Armando Stellato, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", IT
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Universitaet Leipzig, DE
Barry Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA
Christophe Roche, Université de Savoie, FR
David Osumi-Sutherland, University of Cambridge, UK
Fabian Neuhaus, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
Francky Trichet, Université de Nantes, FR
German Rigau, The University of the Basque Country, ES
Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Trento, IT
Irene Celino, CEFRIEL, IT
Jacek Kopecky, Open University, UK
Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, FI
Luigi Selmi, Okkam, IT
Luis Manuel Vilches Blázquez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, SP
Marcello Leida, EBTIC, UAE
Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT
Mathias Brochhausen, University of Arkansas of Medical Sciences, USA
Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, ES
Nikos Loutas, University of Macedonia, GR
Patrice Seyed, University at Buffalo, USA
Richard Cyganiak, National University of Ireland, IE
Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, IT
Stefan Schulz, Medizinische Universitaet Graz, AT
William Hogan, University of Arkansas of Medical Sciences, USA
Zoltan Miklos, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH