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face=Verdana size=2> C&O-2006 submission
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The Second International Workshop
on<BR> Contexts and Ontologies:
Theory, Practice and Applications
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(C&O-2006)<BR>
<A
href="http://www.c-and-o.net/">http://www.c-and-o.net/</A><BR> <BR>
August 28, 2006, ECAI Workshop Program, Riva del Grada, Italy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>OBJECTIVES<BR>The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from
the context and<BR>ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use
for information<BR>integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the
cross-fertilization and<BR>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,<BR>hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:<BR>Foundations:
<BR> Information interoperability and reuse via multiple
contexts and ontologies;<BR> Coordination 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 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>
Evaluation of tools for combination of contexts and
ontologies;<BR> Scalability of techniques for combination of
contexts and ontologies;<BR> Comparison of uses of contexts
and ontologies.<BR>Applications:<BR> Semantic
Web;<BR> Information Retrieval;<BR>
E-commerce;<BR> Knowledge management solutions for large
organizations; <BR> Computer graphics and multimedia;
<BR> Grid and P2P;<BR> Pervasive computing
and ambient intelligence.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>INVITED TALKS:<BR>1. Frank van Harmelen, <BR>Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.</DIV>
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<DIV>2. Selene Makarios, <BR>Stanford University, USA.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS<BR>The schedule assumes a one day
workshop. The workshop will consist of the<BR>following components: keynote
presentations, technical presentations,<BR>posters, and general
discussion.</DIV>
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<DIV>The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus,
the<BR>workshop can improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and
therefore<BR>direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop
will<BR>serve to inform industry representatives about existing research
efforts<BR>that may meet their business needs.</DIV>
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<DIV>Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or
<BR>statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 5 pages
<BR>using the ECAI'06 Style(<A
href="http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/aree/index.php?section=33&area=10">http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/aree/index.php?section=33&area=10</A>).
<BR>Statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled
according <BR>to the guidelines for technical papers. Please make clear if your
paper is meant <BR>to be a statement of interest. All contributions should be
prepared in PDF <BR>format and should be sent (no later than April 15, 2006) by
email to Pavel Shvaiko at: </DIV>
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<DIV><A href="mailto:pavel@dit.unitn.it">pavel@dit.unitn.it</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.<BR>Accepted papers
and statements of interest will be published in the <BR>workshop proceedings.
Also authors of the best technical papers will <BR>be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers for possible <BR>publication in a special issue on
<BR>"Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications" <BR>in the
Knowledge Engineering Review Journal",<BR><A
href="http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=KER">http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=KER</A></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>IMPORTANT DATES<BR>April 15, 2006: Deadline for the submissions.
<BR>May 10, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection. <BR>May 24, 2006:
Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. <BR>Aug 28, 2006: C&O-2006,
Riva del Grada, Italy.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1.Jerome Euzenat<BR>INRIA Rhone-Alpes</DIV>
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<DIV>2.Alain Leger<BR>France Telecom R&D Rennes</DIV>
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<DIV>3.Deborah L. McGuinness<BR>Stanford University</DIV>
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<DIV>4.Pavel Shvaiko (Chair)<BR>University of Trento<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:pavel@dit.unitn.it">pavel@dit.unitn.it</A></DIV>
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<DIV>5.Holger Wache<BR>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<BR> </DIV>
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<DIV>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>Raffaele de Amicis, GraphiTech, Italy <BR>Alex
Borgida, Rutgers University, USA <BR>Patrick Brezillon, University Paris,
France<BR>Doina Caragea, Iowa State University, USA <BR>Anind Dey, Carnegie
Mellon University, USA <BR>Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel <BR>Jerome Euzenat,
INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France <BR>Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA <BR>Aykut
Firat, Notheastern University, USA <BR>Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento,
Italy <BR>Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
<BR>Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA <BR>Yannis Kalfoglou,
University of Southampton, UK <BR>Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D,
<FONT size=2>Partners HealthCare System, </FONT>USA <BR>Ruediger Klein,
DaimlerChrysler, Germany <BR>David Leake, Indiana University, USA <BR>Alain
Leger, France Telecom R&D, France <BR>Selene Makarios, Stanford University,
USA <BR>Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Deborah L.
McGuinness, Stanford University, USA <BR>Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA
<BR>Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA <BR>Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete,
Greece<BR>Michel Plu, France Telecom R&D, France <BR>Fano Ramparany, France
Telecom R&D, France <BR>Chantal Reynaud, Universite Paris-Sud, France
<BR>David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK <BR>Aviv Segev, Technion,
Israel <BR>Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Heiner Stuckenschmidt,
University of Mannheim, Germany <BR>York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe,
Germany <BR>Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
<BR>Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA </DIV>
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C&O-2006 flyer:<BR><A
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<DIV><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>University of Trento<BR>Dept. of Information and Communication
Technology<BR>Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY<BR>Tel: +39 (0461)
883386; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093<BR>Web: <A
href="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</A></DIV>
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