4 Dec 2012
Sydney, Australia
8th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2012)
4 December 2012
Held in Conjunction with the
25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2012)
Sydney, Australia
http://aow2012.yolasite.com/
email: aow@csir.co.za
AOW 2012 is the eighth in a series of workshops on ontologies held
in the Australasian region.
For the fourth year running, AOW 2012 will have a best paper
award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the
author(s) of the best paper.
The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in
the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- Ontology models and theories
- Ontologies and the Semantic Web
- Interoperability in ontologies
- Ontologies and Multi-agent systems
- Description logics for ontologies
- Reasoning with ontologies
- Ontology harvesting on the web
- Ontology of agents and actions
- Ontology visualisation
- Ontology engineering and management
- Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval
- Ontology merging, alignment and integration
- Web ontology languages
- Formal concept analysis and ontologies
- Ontologies for e-research
- Linking open data
- Significant ontology applications
Important Dates:
Submission of papers: 10 October 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 12 November 2012
Final camera ready copies: 23 November 2012
Workshop date: 4 December 2012
Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow20120
For submission instructions: see the AOW website at
http://aow2012.yolasite.com/
For enquiries or more information, the
workshop email address is aow@csir.co.za
Workshop Chairs:
Aurona Gerber (CAIR, South Africa)
Tommie Meyer (CAIR, South Africa)
Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University)
Kerry Taylor (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Program Committee:
Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany
Mike Bain, UNSW, Australia
Arina Britz, CAIR, South Africa
Giovanni Casini, CAIR, South Africa
Werner Ceusters, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Michael Compton, CSIRO, Australia
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, Spain
Atilla Elci, Sleyman Demirel University, Turkey
R. Cenk Erdur, Ege University, Turkey
Peter Fox, TWC/RPI, Canada
Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
Tudor Groza, University of Queensland, Australia
Armin Haller, DERI, Galway, Ireland
Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland
Bo Hu, SAP Research, UK
C. Maria Keet, UKZN, South Africa
Anees Krishna, Curtin University, Australia
Kevin Lee, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Laurent Lefort, CSIR ICT Centre, Australia
Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia
Constantine Mantratzis, University of Westminster, UK
Deshen Moodley, CAIR, South Africa
Maurice Pagnucco, UNSW, Australia
Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia
Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia
Barry Smith, SUNY Buffalo, USA
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
Boontawee Suntisrivaporn, Sirindhorn International Insitute of Technology, Thailand
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Nwe Ni Tun, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ivan Varzinczak, CAIR, South Africa
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
Antoine Zimmermann, cole des Mines de Saint-tienne, France