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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>PRELIMINARY
CALL FOR PAPERS</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2><BR>=================================================================<BR>OWLED
2007<BR>OWL: Experiences and Directions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://owled2007.iut-velizy.uvsq.fr/">http://owled2007.iut-velizy.uvsq.fr/</A><BR><BR>Third
International Workshop<BR>Innsbruck, Austria<BR>6-7 June 2007<BR><BR>Submissions
due: 4 March,
2007<BR>=================================================================<BR><BR></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has been a W3C recommendation
since 2004.<BR>The OWL: Experiences and Direction (OWLED) workshop series is a
forum for<BR>practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and
others<BR>interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to
share<BR>experience, and to discuss requirements for
language<BR>extensions/modifications. At OWLED 2006 it was agreed to move
forward with a<BR>member submission of the OWL 1.1 proposal which extends OWL DL
in ways that<BR>have been requested by users, that have effective reasoning
algorithms, and<BR>that developers of OWL reasoning systems are willing to
support.<BR>The 3rd OWL: Experiences and Directions workshop (OWLED 2007) will
again<BR>bring users, implementors and researchers together in order to measure
the<BR>current state of need against the state of the art and to set an agenda
for<BR>language evolutions that satisfy users. OWLED 2007 shall in
particular<BR>present industrial efforts and experiences with OWL. It shall
further the<BR>interaction between industry, theoreticians and tool builders,
help<BR>consolidate OWL 1.1, clarify the relationships between OWL and rules
and<BR>initiate the specification of OWL 2.0.<BR>Building on the success of the
2005 OWLED and the 2006 OWLED workshops, the<BR>2007 OWLED workshop will again
be immediately after one of the main Semantic<BR>Web conferences, namely the
ESWC conference, and is colocated with the First<BR>International Conference on
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR2007.<BR><BR>Topics<BR>-------------<BR>OWLED
2007 welcomes the submission of papers about all aspects of OWL
and<BR>extensions, application, theory, method, tool, including but not limited
to<BR>the following topics:<BR>- All applications of OWL<BR>- Application-driven
requirements for OWL<BR>- Implementation techniques for OWL and related
languages<BR>- Performance and scalability issues<BR>- Bridges between knowledge
engineering and OWL<BR>- Non-standard inference services, including
explanations, static<BR>verification, modularity<BR>- Enriching ontologies with
rules<BR>- Query answering and data integration<BR>- Tools for OWL including:
editors, visualisation tools, parsers and syntax<BR>checkers, versioning
frameworks<BR>- Extensions to OWL including: extended datatype constructors,
property<BR>constructors, class constructors keys, constraints, rules
probabilistic and<BR>fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions, temporal and
spatial
extensions<BR><BR>*****************************************************************************************<BR>Submissions
of papers on industrial efforts, experiences reports, system<BR>descriptions,
position papers (especially about new features or issues with<BR>OWL), and
survey papers about theory or tools (for example comparing<BR>different ways of
combining rules with OWL) are strongly encouraged. We<BR>particularly
welcome:<BR>- Descriptions of industry system or industrial applications<BR>-
Experience reports with OWL or OWL 1.1 (or any fragment or extension)<BR>Domain
or application ontologies (e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture,
e-Learning<BR>etc.)<BR>- Industry requirements<BR>- Life Sciences or other
community requirements<BR>- Implementation issues with OWL or OWL 1.1<BR>- Demos
with OWL or OWL 1.1<BR>- Reasoning with OWL and rules in practical
applications<BR>- Requirements for a potential OWL 2.0
revision<BR>*****************************************************************************************<BR><BR>Workshop
Format<BR>------------------------------<BR>The goal of the workshop will be to
maximise discussion. The technical<BR>sessions will therefore consist of short
presentations of selected papers<BR>(grouped by topic area) followed by directed
discussion. As in prior years,<BR>there will be session(s) devoted to
standardization efforts, to some issues<BR>deferred from 2006 (alternative
syntaxes, constraints, SPARQL and OWL, rules<BR>and OWL), and a report, with
discussion, on the progress of the OWL 1.1 W3C<BR>submission and working
group.<BR><BR><BR>Submissions<BR>----------------<BR>Submissions can be either
long or short papers. Papers must be no longer<BR>than 10 pages. Short
submissions no longer than 4 pages are welcome.<BR>Interested parties may send
the organizers a one page description of their<BR>demo.<BR>All submissions must
be received before 4 March 2007. All papers must be<BR>submitted online using
the submission website (not available yet).<BR>Submissions must be in PDF, and
will not be accepted in any other format. It<BR>is the responsibility of the
authors to ensure that their submission<BR>displays and prints correctly on
common PDF viewers. Submissions must be<BR>formatted in the style of the
Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes<BR>in Computer Science (LNCS).
For details see<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html">http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html</A>.<BR>All
accepted submissions and demo descriptions will be made available from<BR>the
workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after
the<BR>reviewing process. Presentation materials from the workshop will also
be<BR>placed on the web site.<BR>All submissions will be reviewed by the
workshop committee. Decisions on the<BR>acceptance of papers will be
communicated to authors no later than 14
April,<BR>2007.<BR><BR>Organization<BR>-------------------<BR><BR>General Chair:
Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester (UK)<BR><BR>Programme
Chairs<BR>----------------------------<BR>Christine Golbreich, University of
Versailles (France)<BR>Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM TJ Watson (USA)<BR><BR>Steering
Committee<BR>-----------------------------<BR>Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University
of Manchester (UK)<BR>Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany)<BR>Ian Horrocks,
University of Manchester (UK)<BR>Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester
(UK)<BR>Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA)<BR><BR>Program Committee (to be
updated)<BR>--------------------------------------------------------<BR>Dean
Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA)<BR>Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
(Italy)<BR>Kendall Clark, ClarkParsia LLC (USA)<BR>Catherine Dolbear, Ordinance
Survey of Great Britain (UK)<BR>Peter Fox, High Altitude Observatory
(USA)<BR>Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada)<BR>Peter Haase, AIFB
(Germany)<BR>Rinke Hoekstra, Leibniz Center for Law (NL)<BR>Vipul Kashyap,
Partners HealthCare System (USA)<BR>Alain Léger, France Telecom
(France)<BR>François-Marie Lesaffre, Arcelor (France)<BR>Thorsten Liebig, Ulm
University, (Germany)<BR>Yann Loyer, University of Versailles
(France)<BR>Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany)<BR>Pierre Mariot, Ardans
(France)<BR>Maryann Martone, BIRN (USA)<BR>Deborah McGuinness, Stanford
University (USA)<BR>Anne Monceaux, EADS CCR (France)<BR>Boris Motik, University
of Manchester (UK)<BR>Chris Mungall, Gene Ontology and Lawrence Berkeley Labs
(USA)<BR>Gary Ng, Web Methods (USA)<BR>Massimo Paolucci, NTT DoCoMo
(Germany)<BR>Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)<BR>Daniel
Rubin, CBIO (USA)<BR>Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals,
(USA)<BR>Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)<BR>Guus Schreiber, Vrije
Universitat Amsterdam (NL)<BR>François-Paul Servant, Renault
(France)<BR>Margherita Sini, FAO (Italy)<BR>Kent Spackman, SNOMED
(USA)<BR>Robert Stevens, BioHealth Informatics Group University of Manchester
(UK)<BR>Susie Stephens, Oracle (USA)<BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR Pisa
(Italy)<BR>Hans Teijgeler, ISO Standards (NL)</FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>