OM 2018 - THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2018)

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging or data interlinking. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. We expect that ISWC 2018 technical program will have several papers presenting different methods for ontology matching (just like previous ISWCs did). Therefore, we do not plan to solicit presentations on matching methods per se. Rather, the workshop has the following goals: 1) To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. 2) To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching approaches through the OAEI 2018 campaign. 3) To examine new uses, similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools.