[DL] CFP: First International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings collocated with EKAW 2012

[Guilin Qi]

[Apologies for cross-posting and re-posting]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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      First International Workshop on  Debugging Ontologies and Ontology
Mappings (WoDOOM)

                                       Galway, Ireland, October 8 or 9,
2012

                                        held in conjunction with EKAW 2012

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                                       Submission deadline: August 15, 2012

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http://www.ida.liu.se/~patla/conferences/WoDOOM12/

(or http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/87 )

Developing ontologies is not an easy task and, as the ontologies grow in
size, they are likely to show a number of defects.  Such ontologies,
although often useful, also lead to problems when used in
semantically-enabled applications. Wrong conclusions may be derived or
valid conclusions may be missed.  Defects in ontologies can take different
forms. Syntactic defects are usually easy to find and to resolve. Defects
regarding style include such things as unintended redundancy. More
interesting and severe defects are the modeling defects which require
domain knowledge to detect and resolve such as defects in the structure,
and semantic defects such as unsatisfiable concepts and inconsistent
ontologies.

Further, during the recent years more and more mappings between ontologies
with overlapping information have been generated, e.g. using ontology
alignment systems, thereby connecting the ontologies in ontology networks.
This has led to a new opportunity to deal with defects as the mappings and
other ontologies in the network may be used in the debugging of a
particular ontology in the network. It also has introduced a new difficulty
as the mappings may not always be correct and need to be debugged
themselves.


This workshop intends to be a forum where issues in debugging ontologies
and mappings between ontologies are discussed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- detecting and repairing semantic defects in ontologies

- detecting and repairing modeling defects in ontologies

- detecting and repairing defects in the structure of ontologies

- detecting and repairing defects in mappings between ontologies

- debugging ontology networks

- debugging modular ontologies

- justifications

- belief revision for debugging

- ontology patterns for debugging

- interactive ontology debugging

- visualization for ontology debugging

- connection of ontology debugging with other ontology engineering tasks
(e.g. ontology development, ontology alignment, ontology comprehension,
ontology sense making, ontology evolution, ontology enrichment)

- case studies



*IMPORTANT DATES*


Submission: August 15, 2012.

Notification: September 10, 2012.

Camera-ready: September 30, 2012.



*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*

Paper submission and reviewing for this workshop will be electronic via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wodoom12. The papers should be
written in English, follow Springer LNCS format (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), and be
submitted in PDF.

We invite the submission of Research papers (up to 12 pages), Experience
papers (up to 12 pages), Poster papers (up to 8 pages) and
System/demonstration  papers (up to 8 pages).

Accepted papers will be included in CEUR Workshop Proceedings.



*Attendence*

Note that workshop attendees cannot register for the workshop only, but
need to

register for the EKAW conference as well.


*WORKSHOP CHAIRS*

Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden

Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China.

Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA



*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Oxford, UK

Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Peter Haase, fluid Operations, Germany

Aidan Hogan, DERI, Ireland

Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, UK

Yue Ma, Université Paris 13, France

Christian Meilicke, Mannheim University, Germany

Nadeschda Nikitina, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK

Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany

Uli Sattler, University of Manchester, UK

Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Dresden, Germany

Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

Peng Wang, Southeast University, China

Renata Wassermann, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Fang Wei-Kleiner, Linköping University, Sweden

-- 
Prof. Guilin Qi
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Tel: +86 (25) 52090910
Homepage: http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/qgl/index_en.htm
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