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<DIV>Apologies for cross-postings</DIV>
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size=2>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> <FONT
size=3> C&O-2005 deadlines are extended
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due to a switch in deadlines for the AAAI'05 conference. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>April 20, 2005: Deadline (extended) for the
submissions. <BR>May 11, 2005: Deadline (extended) for the notification of
acceptance/rejection.<BR>May 18, 2005: Deadline (extended) for the receipt
of camera-ready papers. </FONT></DIV>
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<BR>
The AAAI-05 Workshop
on<BR>
Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications
(C&O-2005)<BR>
<A href="http://www.c-and-o.net/">http://www.c-and-o.net/</A></FONT></DIV>
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July 9-10, 2005, AAAI Workshop Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
USA<BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>OBJECTIVES<BR>The
goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and ontology
communities and <BR>to discuss the approaches they use for information
integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the <BR>cross-fertilization and
exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the ontology community
<BR>can be successfully adopted in the context community, and vice versa), and,
hence, make their <BR>meeting mutually
beneficial.<BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>TOPICS
of interest include, but are not limited to:<BR>Foundations:
<BR> Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies;
<BR> Meaning negotiation of multiple contexts and ontologies;
<BR> Languages for combination of multiple contexts and
ontologies; <BR> Logics for combination of multiple contexts
and ontologies. <BR>Theory & Practice: <BR> Techniques and
tools for matching (aligning) contexts and ontologies;<BR>
Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies;<BR>
Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and
ontologies;<BR> Techniques and tools for translating contexts
and ontologies; <BR> Techniques and tools for reconciling
contexts and ontologies; <BR> Techniques for query answering
based on multiple contexts and ontologies;<BR> Benchmarking of
tools for integration of contexts and ontologies;<BR>
Comparisons of techniques and tools for matching, merging, transforming,
translating, and <BR> reconciling contexts and
ontologies;<BR> Scalability of techniques for integration of
contexts and ontologies;<BR> Comparison of uses of contexts
and ontologies.<BR>Applications:<BR> Semantic
Web;<BR> DB model management;<BR>
E-commerce;<BR> Telecommunications, multimedia, content
indexing; <BR> Knowledge management solutions for large
organizations; <BR> Pervasive computing
systems.<BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>INVITED
TALKS<BR>1. Fausto Giunchiglia (<A
href="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~fausto">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~fausto</A>),
University of Trento, Italy <BR> Title of the talk: "Contexts
meet Ontologies: Past, Present and Future"<BR> <BR>2. Christopher Welty (<A
href="http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/">http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/</A>),
IBM Research, USA <BR> Title of the talk: "Ontologies meet
Contexts: Past, Present and
Future"<BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>FORMAT,
ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS<BR>The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The
workshop will consist of the following components: <BR>keynote presentations,
technical presentations, posters/demos, and general discussion.<BR> <BR>The
audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus, the workshop
can improve <BR>academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore direct
research towards those needs. <BR>Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to
inform industry representatives about existing research <BR>efforts that may
meet their business needs.<BR> <BR>Attendance is limited to active
participants only. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms <BR>of
technical papers or statements of interest. Technical papers should be not
longer than 8 pages using <BR>the AAAI-05 style (<A
href="http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/workshops.html">http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/workshops.html</A>).
Statements of interest should <BR>not exceed 2 pages using the AAAI-05 style.
All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and <BR>should be sent by
email to Pavel Shvaiko:<BR> <BR><A
href="mailto:pavel@dit.unitn.it">pavel@dit.unitn.it</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Contributions will be refereed by the Program
Committee. <BR>Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published as
AAAI Technical report series.<BR>Also we will publish the extended versions of
the best technical papers of the workshop in the<BR>Journal on Data Semantics
(<A
href="http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/">http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/</A>).<BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>IMPORTANT
DATES<BR>April 20, 2005: Extended deadline for the submissions. <BR>May 11,
2005: Extended deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.<BR>May 18,
2005: Extended deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Note that this is a tight schedule: it allows only
1 week for preparing a camera-ready copy. <BR>Unfortunately, we are unable to
change these dates. <BR>This tight timeline is due to scheduling problems in the
AAAI'05
conference.<BR> <BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>PROGRAM
COMMITTEE <BR> <BR>Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA <BR>Paolo Bouquet,
University of Trento, Italy <BR>AnHai Doan, University of Illinois, USA
<BR>Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France <BR>Richard Fikes, Stanford
University, USA <BR>Timothy W. Finin, University of Maryland, USA <BR>Fausto
Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Michael Gruninger, NIST, USA
<BR>Ramanathan Guha, IBM Research, USA <BR>Frank van Harmelen, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, University of
Southampton, UK <BR>Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA <BR>Alain
Léger, France Telecom R&D, France <BR>Maurizio Marchese, University of
Trento, Italy <BR>Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA <BR>John
Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada <BR>Natalya Noy, Stanford University,
USA <BR>Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA <BR>Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete,
Greece <BR>Michel Plu, France Telecom, France <BR>Fano Ramparany, France
Telecom, France <BR>Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy <BR>Amit Sheth, University
of Georgia, USA <BR>Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Heiner
Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>York Sure, AIFB,
University of Karlsruhe, Germany <BR>Michael Uschold, Boeing, USA <BR>Holger
Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Christopher Welty, IBM
Research, USA </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2><BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE <BR>1.Jerome Euzenat <BR>INRIA Rhone-Alpes<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr">Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2.Alain Leger<BR>France Telecom R&D
Rennes<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:alain.leger@rd.francetelecom.com">alain.leger@rd.francetelecom.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3.Deborah L. McGuinness<BR>Stanford
University<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:dlm@ksl.stanford.edu">dlm@ksl.stanford.edu</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4.Pavel Shvaiko (CHAIR)<BR>University of
Trento<BR>e-mail: <A href="mailto:pavel@dit.unitn.it">pavel@dit.unitn.it</A>
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5.Holger Wache<BR>Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:holger@cs.vu.nl">holger@cs.vu.nl</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2><BR> <BR>Cheers,<BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>PhD Student, University of Trento<BR>Dept. of Information and
Communication Technology<BR>Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO,
ITALY<BR>Tel: +39 (0461) 883914; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093<BR>Web: <A
href="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</A><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>