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, see http://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. 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 )
INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany)
Thomas Schneider (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA)
Simon Colton (Imperial College, London, UK)
Melanie Courtot (BC Cancer Care & Research, Vancouver, Canada)
Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK)
Faezeh Ensan (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Fred Freitas (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milan, Italy)
Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK)
Joana Hois (University of Bremen, Germany)
C. Maria Keet (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College, London, UK)
Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bremen, Germany)
Leo Obrst (MITRE, McLean, VA, USA)
Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, UK)
Daniel Pokrywczynski (University of Liverpool, UK)
Anne Schlicht (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Marco Schorlemmer (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain)
Andrei Tamilin (FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy)
Dirk Walther (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)