8-12 Aug 2011
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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5th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO)
Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 8-12, 2011
held in conjunction with ESSLLI 2011
--- First Call for Papers ---
Submission deadline: February 15, 2011
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http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo5
MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows
mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring,
maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology
engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of
understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and
ontology reasoning.
Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in
foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular
development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results
provide a foundation for ongoing multi-disciplinary research and development.
The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent
venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current
problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of ESSLLI 2011
(week 2, see http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=306 ), following an introductory
ESSLLI course on notions of modularity in ontologies (week 1,
seehttp://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=310 ).
TOPICS include, but are not limited to:
- What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs.
contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation;
- Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity and syntactic approximations for
modules; modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across
modules; formal structuring of modules; networks of ontologies; heterogeneity;
- Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and module
extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and importing; hiding and
privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning;
reasoners or implemented systems;
- Applications: Semantic Web; life sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language
processing; ontologies of space and time; ambient intelligence; collaborative
ontology development; etc.
The workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community. Workshop speakers
will be required to register for the Summer School; however, they will be able
to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Local Organizers.
IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative)
Paper Submission: February 15, 2011
Notification: April 15, 2011
Camera ready: June 1, 2011
Workshop: August 8-12, 2011
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and previously
unpublished papers.
Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be formatted
according to IOS Press style (see
http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ).
Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later than
February 15, 2011, through the EasyChair Submission System (see
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2011 ).
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee
(TBA). Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and are expected to be
published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in
Artificial Intelligence and Applications'.
(Find the WoMO 2010 proceedings here
http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=16268 )
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany)
Thomas Schneider (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE and INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA