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FINAL CALL FOR
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The Fourth International Workshop on
<BR>
ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2009)<BR>
</FONT><A href="http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
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face=Verdana>http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Chantilly, near
Washington DC., USA </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES<BR>Ontology
matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, <BR>as well as
a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. <BR>It takes the
ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, <BR>that is, a set of
correspondences between the semantically <BR>related entities of those
ontologies. These correspondences can be used <BR>for various tasks, such as
ontology merging and data translation. <BR>Thus, matching ontologies enables the
knowledge and data expressed <BR>in the matched ontologies to interoperate.
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>The workshop has three goals: <BR>1. To bring together
leaders from academia, industry and user institutions <BR>to assess how academic
advances are addressing real-world requirements. <BR>The workshop will strive to
improve academic awareness of industrial <BR>and final user needs, and
therefore, direct research towards those needs. <BR>Simultaneously, the workshop
will serve to inform industry and user <BR>representatives about existing
research efforts that may meet their<BR>requirements. The workshop will also
investigate how the ontology <BR>matching technology is going to
evolve.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of
ontology matching <BR>approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation
Initiative) <BR>2009 campaign: </FONT><A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about
<BR>oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for <BR>the
linked data community). Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation
<BR>initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well
<BR>the current approaches are meeting business needs. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>3. To examine similarities and differences from database
schema matching, <BR>which has received decades of attention but is just
beginning to transition <BR>to mainstream tools. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR><FONT face=Verdana>TOPICS of interest include
but are not limited to: <BR> Business cases for matching;
<BR> Requirements to matching from specific domains;
<BR> Application of matching techniques in real-world
scenarios; <BR> Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology
matching; <BR> Large-scale ontology matching evaluation;
<BR> Performance of matching techniques;
<BR> Matcher selection and self-configuration;
<BR> Uncertainty in ontology matching; <BR>
User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
<BR> Explanations in matching; <BR> Social
and collaborative matching; <BR> Alignment management;
<BR> Reasoning with alignments; <BR>
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration);
<BR> Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer,
web-services).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>SUBMISSIONS<BR>Contributions to the workshop can be made
in terms of technical papers and <BR>posters/statements of interest addressing
different issues of ontology matching <BR>as well as participating in the OAEI
2009 campaign. Technical papers should <BR>be not longer than 12 pages using the
LNCS Style:<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and
<BR>should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. <BR>All
contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted
<BR>through the workshop submission site at: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow
the campaign conditions <BR>and schedule at </FONT><A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR><FONT face=Verdana>IMPORTANT DATES FOR
TECHNICAL PAPERS: <BR>August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers.
<BR>September 6, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
<BR>October 2, 2009: Workshop camera ready copy submission. <BR>October 25,
2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Chantilly, near Washington DC.,
USA. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR><FONT face=Verdana>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1.
Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA,
Italy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>2. Jérôme Euzenat <BR>INRIA & LIG,
France</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>3. Fausto Giunchiglia <BR>University of Trento,
Italy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt <BR>University of Mannheim,
Germany </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>5. Natasha Noy <BR>Stanford Center for Biomedical
Informatics Research, USA </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>6. Arnon Rosenthal <BR>The MITRE Corporation, USA
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>Yuan An, Drexel University, USA
<BR>Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France <BR>Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh,
UK <BR>Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA <BR>Isabel Cruz,
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA <BR>Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
<BR>Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel <BR>Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA
<BR>Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA <BR>Wei Hu, Southeast
University, China <BR>Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
<BR>Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Krzysztof
Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany <BR>Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno
Kessler (IRST), Italy <BR>Bin He, IBM, USA <BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe
plc, UK <BR>Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
<BR>Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden <BR>Maurizio Lenzerini,
University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy <BR>Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento,
Italy <BR>Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK <BR>Christian Meilicke,
University of Mannheim, Germany <BR>Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA,
Italy <BR>Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA <BR>Leo Obrst, The MITRE
Corporation, USA <BR>Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs, Germany <BR>François
Scharffe, INRIA, France <BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy <BR>York Sure,
University of Koblenz, Germany <BR>Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
(IRST), Italy <BR>Lorenzino Vaccari, PAT, Italy <BR>Ludger van Elst, DFKI,
Germany <BR>Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
<BR>Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Baoshi Yan, Bosch
Research, USA <BR>Rui Zhang, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Songmao Zhang,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT
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the OM-2009 flyer:<BR></FONT><A
href="http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>-------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>More about ontology matching: <BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://book.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://book.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Best Regards,<BR>Pavel</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT
face=Verdana>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, PhD<BR>Innovation and Research Project Manager<BR>TasLab, Informatica
Trentina SpA, Italy<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</FONT></A><BR><A
href="http://www.infotn.it/"><FONT
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