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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#990000">Workshop on Core
Ontologies in Ontology Engineering</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#990000">8th October
2004</font></div>
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color="#990000">Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK</font></div>
<div align="center">http://www.loa-cnr.it/core_onto.html</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#990000">(Un)Successful
cases and best practices for ontology engineering:</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#990000"> reusing
well-founded ontologies for domain content specification.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Held in conjunction with EKAW 2004</b></div>
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<div>Research on ontological engineering should focus on the content
of information, besides the tools and languages in terms of which
information is represented. As a matter of fact, languages and tools
enable the specification of ontologies, help in verifying their
logical correctness, and endorse their suitability for information
exchange. However, the ontologies themselves might provide no or
little, or just informal explanation of their content.</div>
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<div>Until now, two schools of thought have confronted concerning
ontology content.</div>
<div>The first one claims that content is so much bound to context
that efforts to define widely reusable ontological components are
mostly useless: ontologies should be built based on agreement within
communities of practice, or by good ol' craftmanship. The other one
claims the contrary: widely reusable components can be built, based on
linguistic usage, following standard initiatives, or based on
domain-independent principles derived from theoretical domains such as
philosophy or the cognitive sciences.</div>
<div>We have good and bad examples of those approaches, but all of
them are supposed to be applied in order to create a representation of
the content of some domain, and in doing that a "core"
ontology is often built to catch the central concepts and relations of
the domain.</div>
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<div>Instead of trying "yet another" meeting among proposers
of top ontologies, the workshop looks for contributions that describe
successful (or reasons for failure of) efforts to build core
ontologies, possibly providing the principles of
"well-foundedness" (or the reasons for their lack) for the
ontologies.</div>
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<div>-<b> Paper Submission Deadline 15th July 2004</b></div>
<div>- Notification of Acceptance 29th July 2004 (depending on the
number of submissions)</div>
<div>- Camera-ready Copy Deadline 25th August 2004</div>
<div>- Workshop 8th October 2004</div>
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<div>SUBMISSION</div>
<div>A full paper (not to exceed 8 pages), including title, author's
name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax and e-mail of
the principal authors should reach the Organizing Committee on or
before July 15, 2004. Papers will be accepted by electronic submission
only (PDF format). Although not required for the initial submission,
we recommend to follow the LNCS format guidelines for proceedings
(http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-7237<span
></span>6-0,00.html).</div>
<div>Proceedings will be distributed at the workshop and published
online at CEUR-WS
(http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/).</div
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<div>At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to
register and present the paper at the workshop.</div>
<div>Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the significance
with respect to the workshop topics as well as on the technical
relevance. Submissions must be sent to both of the following addresses
(please, substitute "@" for "_at_"):</div>
<div>a.gangemi_at_istc.cnr.it</div>
<div>borgo_at_loa-cnr.it</div>
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<div>ORGANIZERS</div>
<div>Stefano Borgo</div>
<div>LOA - Laboratory for Applied Ontology</div>
<div>Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (CNR), Trento,
Italy</div>
<div>borgo_at_loa-cnr.it</div>
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<div>Aldo Gangemi (contact person)</div>
<div>LOA - Laboratory for Applied Ontology</div>
<div>Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (CNR), Rome,
Italy</div>
<div>a.gangemi_at_istc.cnr.it</div>
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<div>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</div>
<div>Hans Akkermans, VUA, Amsterdam</div>
<div>John Bateman, U. of Hamburg</div>
<div>Brandon Bennett, U. of Leeds</div>
<div>Joost Breuker, UVA, Amsterdam</div>
<div>Oscar Corcho, UPM Madrid and ISOCO, Madrid</div>
<div>Michael Gruninger, U. of Maryland and NIST</div>
<div>Enrico Motta, KMI, Open U., Milton Keynes</div>
<div>Natasha Noy, Stanford U.</div>
<div>Sofia Pinto, U. of Lisboa</div>
<div>Alan Rector, U. of Manchester</div>
<div>Guus Schreiber, VUA, Amsterdam</div>
<div>Steffen Staab, U. of Karlsruhe</div>
<div>Laure Vieu, IRIT, Toulouse and ISTC-CNR, Trento</div>
<div>Krisztof Wecel, U. of Poznan</div>
<div>Chris Welty, Watson RC, IBM, US</div>
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<div><b>Further information at the workshop webpage:</b></div>
<div>http://www.loa-cnr.it/core_onto.html</div>
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